Patricia Pace
Biographic Data
| ID | 6609949 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Pace |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia |
| FAMILY NAME | Pace |
| SIGNATURE | PACE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
All our lost children: Trauma and testimony in the performance of childhood
The testimony of trauma in Mary Karr's memoir, The liar's Club, is used as a representative text for an analysis of contemporary constructions of childhood. The child as a repository for the true self, with childhood as an endangered space, enacts complexities and contradictions central to subjectivity. This paper also posits a theoretical framework for understanding childhood as performance
Performing subjects: Gender, childhood, and the contradictions of the critical text
The body‐in‐writing: Miniatures in Mary Norton's borrowers
This essay offers a reading of the miniature in Mary Norton's Borrowers series as a representation of the child's and the woman's body. The miniaturized bodies found in children's fiction and fantasy are symbolic gestures which attempt to subvert the gender categories prescribed by the dominant culture. Miniaturization may be compared to anorexia as a body‐in‐writing that problematizes strategies of power and control which define and monitor wome…
All our lost children: Trauma and testimony in the performance of childhood
The testimony of trauma in Mary Karr's memoir, The liar's Club, is used as a representative text for an analysis of contemporary constructions of childhood. The child as a repository for the true self, with childhood as an endangered space, enacts complexities and contradictions central to subjectivity. This paper also posits a theoretical framework for understanding childhood as performance
The body‐in‐writing: Miniatures in Mary Norton's borrowers
This essay offers a reading of the miniature in Mary Norton's Borrowers series as a representation of the child's and the woman's body. The miniaturized bodies found in children's fiction and fantasy are symbolic gestures which attempt to subvert the gender categories prescribed by the dominant culture. Miniaturization may be compared to anorexia as a body‐in‐writing that problematizes strategies of power and control which define and monitor wome…
The body‐in‐writing: Miniatures in Mary Norton's borrowers
This essay offers a reading of the miniature in Mary Norton's Borrowers series as a representation of the child's and the woman's body. The miniaturized bodies found in children's fiction and fantasy are symbolic gestures which attempt to subvert the gender categories prescribed by the dominant culture. Miniaturization may be compared to anorexia as a body‐in‐writing that problematizes strategies of power and control which define and monitor wome…
Performing subjects: Gender, childhood, and the contradictions of the critical text
All our lost children: Trauma and testimony in the performance of childhood
The testimony of trauma in Mary Karr's memoir, The liar's Club, is used as a representative text for an analysis of contemporary constructions of childhood. The child as a repository for the true self, with childhood as an endangered space, enacts complexities and contradictions central to subjectivity. This paper also posits a theoretical framework for understanding childhood as performance
Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works)