Daisy Reid
Biographic Data
| ID | 6625185 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daisy Reid |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daisy |
| FAMILY NAME | Reid |
| SIGNATURE | REID D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7454-1596 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Carnivorous Plants and Man-Eating Women
This paper explores the genre of the botanical gothic, a derivative of the fin de siècle adventure novel in which (generally male) British explorers engage in combat with fictitious killer vegetation from the colonial periphery. I argue that the carnivorous plant of the botanical gothic is intimately entangled with another “man-eating” figure: that of the New Woman. Through a reading of H. G. Wells's “The Flowering of the Strange Orchid” (1894), …
Queer Desires and Sugary Kisses
This article explores the prismatic possibilities for interspecies pleasures, bodily fluidity, and intimacies that disrupt speciesist, heterosexist, and repronormative paradigms in Yoko Tawada’s Memoirs of a Polar Bear. Through the lens of sweetness as an aesthetic, affective, material, and sensory quality, I interrogate modes of human-animal kinship that are predicated on sensorial pleasure, while remaining attuned to the knotty biopolitical ent…
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Queer Desires and Sugary Kisses
This article explores the prismatic possibilities for interspecies pleasures, bodily fluidity, and intimacies that disrupt speciesist, heterosexist, and repronormative paradigms in Yoko Tawada’s Memoirs of a Polar Bear. Through the lens of sweetness as an aesthetic, affective, material, and sensory quality, I interrogate modes of human-animal kinship that are predicated on sensorial pleasure, while remaining attuned to the knotty biopolitical ent…
Carnivorous Plants and Man-Eating Women
This paper explores the genre of the botanical gothic, a derivative of the fin de siècle adventure novel in which (generally male) British explorers engage in combat with fictitious killer vegetation from the colonial periphery. I argue that the carnivorous plant of the botanical gothic is intimately entangled with another “man-eating” figure: that of the New Woman. Through a reading of H. G. Wells's “The Flowering of the Strange Orchid” (1894), …
Art (2 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Queer (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Adventure (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Art history (1 work)