Jennifer Gustar
Biographic Data
| ID | 6564604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Gustar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Gustar |
| SIGNATURE | GUSTAR J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers
Jean Wyatt and Sheldon George have put together a superb collection of essays. The eleven contributions are divided into two sections based loosely on the geographical locations of the novelists under study; however, the concerns of the writers are trans-Atlantic. In their introduction, Wyatt and George express the desire to bring an analysis of narrative form to the established study of the themes of race and its ethical effects, thereby foregro…
Putting History in Its Place
Second-Hand’ and ‘Hardly Used’
In this analysis, Angela Carter's first novel, Shadow Dance (1966), is viewed as an initial diagnosis of the structures that promote and uphold gender inequities and feed the fantastical pathologies that underpin gendered violence and rape culture. While Carter's life's work can now be seen as dedicated to the feminist project of rethinking the relationship between power and desire through a process of resignification, this early work has often b…
The Tempest in an English Teapot
Zadie Smith’s White Teeth argues that we can take responsibility for the future if we refuse to act in thrall to the legacies of the past, which favour one human life over another, and act instead with the conviction that all lives are lives (Judith Butler). White Teeth examines the colonial legacy of violence against others and suggests that we can only change what counts as the past for future generations by questioning the modernist ideology o…
Re-Membering Cassandra, or Oedipus Gets Hysterical
Jennifer Gustar, Re-Membering Cassandra, or Oedipus Gets Hysterical: Contestatory Madness and Illuminating Magic in Angela Carter's "Nights at the Circus", Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Fall, 2004), pp. 339-369
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Re-Membering Cassandra, or Oedipus Gets Hysterical
Jennifer Gustar, Re-Membering Cassandra, or Oedipus Gets Hysterical: Contestatory Madness and Illuminating Magic in Angela Carter's "Nights at the Circus", Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Fall, 2004), pp. 339-369
The Tempest in an English Teapot
Zadie Smith’s White Teeth argues that we can take responsibility for the future if we refuse to act in thrall to the legacies of the past, which favour one human life over another, and act instead with the conviction that all lives are lives (Judith Butler). White Teeth examines the colonial legacy of violence against others and suggests that we can only change what counts as the past for future generations by questioning the modernist ideology o…
Putting History in Its Place
Second-Hand’ and ‘Hardly Used’
In this analysis, Angela Carter's first novel, Shadow Dance (1966), is viewed as an initial diagnosis of the structures that promote and uphold gender inequities and feed the fantastical pathologies that underpin gendered violence and rape culture. While Carter's life's work can now be seen as dedicated to the feminist project of rethinking the relationship between power and desire through a process of resignification, this early work has often b…
Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers
Jean Wyatt and Sheldon George have put together a superb collection of essays. The eleven contributions are divided into two sections based loosely on the geographical locations of the novelists under study; however, the concerns of the writers are trans-Atlantic. In their introduction, Wyatt and George express the desire to bring an analysis of narrative form to the established study of the themes of race and its ethical effects, thereby foregro…
Art (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works) · Law (2 works)