Tag Archives: Embodiment

Don’t Kill My Embodiment

Posted on April 11, 2011 by John Vasoli

Don’t Let Me Be Lonely seems to be the wrong title for Claudia Rankine’s lyric about American life. I would suggest something more along the lines of Don’t Die on Me. Or, if that’s too cliche, perhaps something more subtle … Continue reading →

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Let There Be Peace on Earth and Let It Begin With Us

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Rachel

In Reading Autobiography, the section on embodiment includes a description of a sociopolitical body. Smith and Watson define this sociopolitical body as “a set of cultural attitudes and discourses encoding the public meanings of bodies that have for centuries underwritten … Continue reading →

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“Staking fence rods in my flesh”: Anzaldúa’s Embodied Borderland

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Crystal Frost

In Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Gloria Anzaldúa boldly claims an identity inherently composed of the intersecting elements of Chicana culture, internalizing the complexities of the US-Mexico borderland. As Smith and Watson explain, “the cultural meanings assigned particular bodies affect … Continue reading →

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Embodiment in Alexie’s Text

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Allison Vickers

Sherman Alexie uses embodiment in “The Unauthorized Autobiography of Me” to reflect emotional and financial hardships. On pages four and five of the autobiography Alexie repeats the phrase “my hands are bare” three times. By using physical description Alexie brings … Continue reading →

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