Textual Practice: Volume 9 Issue 2

This absorbing issue inverts, and then debates concepts of aesthetics, identity, ethnicity and cultural valuations. Contents include: "From Caillois to "The Laugh of the Medusa": vectors of a diagonal science; Hard and Wet: Luce Irigararay and the Fascist body;" "Representations of "Irishness" in "The Untilled Field": deconstructing ideological ethnicity; Filling the Sight by Force: smoke, photography and the rhetoric of immobilization; The Political Economy of Mansfield Park: Fanny Price and the Atlantic Working Class; Bhabha, Hybridity and" "Valuation; Gabrielle's New Clothes: cultural valuations and evaluations,"