The Reinvention of Identity in Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6187730 |
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| Authors | Aristi Trendel (0000-0002-2349-5478, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2011-04-04 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1991-9336 • E-ISSN: 1991-9336 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/ejas.9036 |
| OpenAlex | W2013295560 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
In his second novel, Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides is deep in the Greeks. If Melville in Moby Dick sets up an anthology of whaling, Eugenides builds his collection of Greekness. It may be because the Greeks found a mythical way out of the contradictions and the ambiguities that characterize the fragmented human being in search of unity through Hermaphroditus, the figure of an indivisible duality, quite appropriate to express the diverse reality of American unity. The Pulitzer-prized writer rev
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| Highly cited | No |
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