Alyda Faber
Biographic Data
| ID | 3942383 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alyda Faber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alyda |
| FAMILY NAME | Faber |
| SIGNATURE | FABER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Atlantic School of Theology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Dancer in the Dark
This article argues that Lars von Trier's film Dancer in the Dark (2000) develops a provocative aesthetic of attention to affliction. The significance of this aesthetic is developed with reference to Simone Weil's understanding of affliction as deep psychic, social and physical suffering. She finds that humans habitually avoid affliction with consolations of optimistic political or religious meaning, and that deep suffering is thus rarely engaged…
Eros and Violence
Rita Nakashima Brock, Carter Heyward and Susan Thistlethwaite intend, in their respective theological projects, to create a vision of feminist eros uncomplicated by violence. They envision feminist eros as a means to bring theology back to earth and into the body, and encourage women to seek the good within themselves and their relationships with others. Brock, Heyward and Thistlethwaite resist social injustices, particularly the intertwined stru…
Saint Orlan
The French performance artist's practice of self-directed violence creates a spectacle that violates the viewer and establishes Orlan's body as “a site of public debate.” Her work radically exposes the violence of patriarchically established “beauty standards.”
Fragments of the Spirit
Reineke's book is important on three counts.First, it highlights the value of Kristeva's work for North American feminists.This group of scholars tends to undermine Kristeva's work.For various reasons, they miss Kristeva's strate gic method of holding in tension the symbolic (language as a system encom passing essentialist categories) and the semiotic (that aspect within language that has the power to pluralize language, thus, undermining essenti…
Sacrifice of Feminine Eros Heavenly in Creatures
A he sleeves and cuffs of the navy woolen coat siphon mud and water.The first blows drew the hands into the pain, into the skin opened by the brick; now the hands and arms stretch out.The fingers stiffen with each crush of brick against hair and skin, and they relax as the brick in the stocking bounces away.Arabesques of blood darken the ground: ochre on brown.The face moulds features in the mud.Black buttons mould cir cles.The head weeps.The mur…
Escape from Paradise
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Escape from Paradise
Sacrifice of Feminine Eros Heavenly in Creatures
A he sleeves and cuffs of the navy woolen coat siphon mud and water.The first blows drew the hands into the pain, into the skin opened by the brick; now the hands and arms stretch out.The fingers stiffen with each crush of brick against hair and skin, and they relax as the brick in the stocking bounces away.Arabesques of blood darken the ground: ochre on brown.The face moulds features in the mud.Black buttons mould cir cles.The head weeps.The mur…
Fragments of the Spirit
Reineke's book is important on three counts.First, it highlights the value of Kristeva's work for North American feminists.This group of scholars tends to undermine Kristeva's work.For various reasons, they miss Kristeva's strate gic method of holding in tension the symbolic (language as a system encom passing essentialist categories) and the semiotic (that aspect within language that has the power to pluralize language, thus, undermining essenti…
Saint Orlan
The French performance artist's practice of self-directed violence creates a spectacle that violates the viewer and establishes Orlan's body as “a site of public debate.” Her work radically exposes the violence of patriarchically established “beauty standards.”
Eros and Violence
Rita Nakashima Brock, Carter Heyward and Susan Thistlethwaite intend, in their respective theological projects, to create a vision of feminist eros uncomplicated by violence. They envision feminist eros as a means to bring theology back to earth and into the body, and encourage women to seek the good within themselves and their relationships with others. Brock, Heyward and Thistlethwaite resist social injustices, particularly the intertwined stru…
Dancer in the Dark
This article argues that Lars von Trier's film Dancer in the Dark (2000) develops a provocative aesthetic of attention to affliction. The significance of this aesthetic is developed with reference to Simone Weil's understanding of affliction as deep psychic, social and physical suffering. She finds that humans habitually avoid affliction with consolations of optimistic political or religious meaning, and that deep suffering is thus rarely engaged…
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