Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Week 6: Dead Girls, Dead Boys, Dead Things

Group B: Please respond by Friday at Midnight (about 1 page in Length)
Group A: Please comment on these responses by 5pm (before Tuesday's section).

Take a look at the passages below and point out one stereotype that is being used. What is being done with/to this stereotype? If it's being questioned, or worked on (or with) then how?(Calder 6-7)

“Primavera was a melodramatic little doll. Wearing a cropped T-shirt that erroneously declared her Miss Nana ’71, the third eye of her umbilicus played peek-a-boo-with the camera as she shuddered with the effort of restraining her bitter tears.
“It would be slab, Mr. Ignatz. Spike. Tzepa, as you English say. [Kito says] It is good my Pikadon find you. Boy like you have no place to run. England very bad now. English roboto go crazy. Doll bite man, man fuck lady, and lady have baby turn into doll. People say have world of doll soon. World of Lilim.”

“...‘Shut up!’ I told those angels—good? Bad?—who were whispering Trick! Hoax! in my ear.) Maybe that’s what I’d been waiting for during those fugitive days: an excuse to return. I was a doll junkie; my limbs ached for the kisses of dead girls. For vampire kisses. For the allure.
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"It had been a cry across a war zone of desire. Should I step again into no-man’s-land? Outside the coconut trees were swaying, fainting to an alien tide. Primavera was here, even here, her hunger that of a dog picking at the world’s remains; her stealth, the scuttling of a cockroach. Escape. Get up; go, before…But across the star-filled paddies she reaches out; like a serpent, her torso twists, strikes…”

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