Lesley Larkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3672669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lesley Larkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lesley |
| FAMILY NAME | Larkin |
| SIGNATURE | LARKIN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern Michigan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3699-9699 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Then Her World Exploded”: Science-Fictional Reading and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me
In his extended epistolary essay Between the World and Me (2015), Ta-Nehisi Coates describes the segregation and disenfranchisement that shaped his West Baltimore childhood using language that one might describe as science-fictional: I came to understand that my country was a galaxy, and this galaxy stretched from the pandemonium of West Baltimore to the happy hunting grounds of Mr. Belvedere. I obsessed over the distance between that other secto…
Reading in the Postgenomic Age: On Contemporary Literature and the Good Bionarrative Citizen
The “postgenomic age,” whose start date roughly corresponds to the turn of the millennium, is characterized not only by the rapid development of genomic technologies and commercial products but also by the widespread publication of literary works focused on genomics and its cultural implications. Defining “postgenomic literature” as literature that is both of and about the postgenomic age, this essay explores how works by nonfiction writer Rebecc…
Reading as Responsible Dialogue in Ana Castillo’s The Mixquiahuala Letters
[O]ne voice is not enough, nor two, although is where dialogue begins. --Cherrie Moraga (58) In Letter Thirty-Two of Ana Castillo's epistolary novel, The Mixquiahuala Letters (1986), the Chicana poet protagonist, Teresa, recalls her return to writing after having been silenced by an emotionally abusive lover: Then one October night, she has finished a fifth of rum alone and dares to take out the poems she wrote in life, before him. The voice of a…
Reading and Being Read: Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place as Literary Agent
Reading and Being ReadJamaica Kincaid's A Small Place as Literary Agent Lesley Larkin (bio) If as teachers of literature we teach reading, literature can be our teacher as well as our object of investigation. . . . Our own undecidable meaning is in the irreducible figure that stands in for the eyes of the other. This is the effortful task: to displace the fear of our faceless students, behind whom are the eyes of the global others. Otherwise, who…
Authentic Mothers, Authentic Daughters and Sons: Ultrasound Imaging and the Construction of Fetal Sex and Gender
At a time when many women choose fewer medical interventions at birth and claim less sex preference before birth, why do so many choose to use technology to determine the sex of their babies weeks before they are born? The popularity of accessing ultrasound imaging to ‘‘determine’’ fetal sex resonates with a contemporary gender liberalism that affirms binary sex, gender equality, and (limited) gender variation within the logic of consumer choice.…
Reading and Being Read: Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place as Literary Agent
Reading and Being ReadJamaica Kincaid's A Small Place as Literary Agent Lesley Larkin (bio) If as teachers of literature we teach reading, literature can be our teacher as well as our object of investigation. . . . Our own undecidable meaning is in the irreducible figure that stands in for the eyes of the other. This is the effortful task: to displace the fear of our faceless students, behind whom are the eyes of the global others. Otherwise, who…
Authentic Mothers, Authentic Daughters and Sons: Ultrasound Imaging and the Construction of Fetal Sex and Gender
At a time when many women choose fewer medical interventions at birth and claim less sex preference before birth, why do so many choose to use technology to determine the sex of their babies weeks before they are born? The popularity of accessing ultrasound imaging to ‘‘determine’’ fetal sex resonates with a contemporary gender liberalism that affirms binary sex, gender equality, and (limited) gender variation within the logic of consumer choice.…
Authentic Mothers, Authentic Daughters and Sons: Ultrasound Imaging and the Construction of Fetal Sex and Gender
At a time when many women choose fewer medical interventions at birth and claim less sex preference before birth, why do so many choose to use technology to determine the sex of their babies weeks before they are born? The popularity of accessing ultrasound imaging to ‘‘determine’’ fetal sex resonates with a contemporary gender liberalism that affirms binary sex, gender equality, and (limited) gender variation within the logic of consumer choice.…
Reading as Responsible Dialogue in Ana Castillo’s The Mixquiahuala Letters
[O]ne voice is not enough, nor two, although is where dialogue begins. --Cherrie Moraga (58) In Letter Thirty-Two of Ana Castillo's epistolary novel, The Mixquiahuala Letters (1986), the Chicana poet protagonist, Teresa, recalls her return to writing after having been silenced by an emotionally abusive lover: Then one October night, she has finished a fifth of rum alone and dares to take out the poems she wrote in life, before him. The voice of a…
Reading and Being Read: Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place as Literary Agent
Reading and Being ReadJamaica Kincaid's A Small Place as Literary Agent Lesley Larkin (bio) If as teachers of literature we teach reading, literature can be our teacher as well as our object of investigation. . . . Our own undecidable meaning is in the irreducible figure that stands in for the eyes of the other. This is the effortful task: to displace the fear of our faceless students, behind whom are the eyes of the global others. Otherwise, who…
Reading in the Postgenomic Age: On Contemporary Literature and the Good Bionarrative Citizen
The “postgenomic age,” whose start date roughly corresponds to the turn of the millennium, is characterized not only by the rapid development of genomic technologies and commercial products but also by the widespread publication of literary works focused on genomics and its cultural implications. Defining “postgenomic literature” as literature that is both of and about the postgenomic age, this essay explores how works by nonfiction writer Rebecc…
Then Her World Exploded”: Science-Fictional Reading and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me
In his extended epistolary essay Between the World and Me (2015), Ta-Nehisi Coates describes the segregation and disenfranchisement that shaped his West Baltimore childhood using language that one might describe as science-fictional: I came to understand that my country was a galaxy, and this galaxy stretched from the pandemonium of West Baltimore to the happy hunting grounds of Mr. Belvedere. I obsessed over the distance between that other secto…
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