Monthly Archives: September 2013
French Senate Bans Child Beauty Pageants
In further pageant news, according to a New York Times article, the French Senate has passed legislation that would ban beauty pageants for girls younger than 16 years old. The ban was folded into larger legislation aimed at promoting gender equality, which now moves to the National Assembly for further discussion and a vote. The … Continue reading
Comps Notes: Theories of Citizenship & Nation
American cultural citizenship is a big part of my rationale. Huge. I have two clusters of theory on my reading list dealing with defining nation and citizenship. Not all are covered in these notes, but most are. I’m delaying a couple because one fits nicely with my transnational feminism list and the other is hard … Continue reading
Miss America is American (So is Marc Anthony)
Here she is, Miss America! So last night, Miss America was crowned, the first of Indian descent–Nina Davuluri. Unless we’re talking Little Miss Sunshine, pageants aren’t really my thing. I had a moment of “Yay!” and didn’t give it a second thought until I saw that the idiot mob that is the internet expressed its … Continue reading
The Bridge’s Disappointing Twist
Remember over the summer when I was so hopeful about The Bridge and the way the show shed light on the multiple institutions that allowed for the continual mass violence against women on the U.S.-Mexico border, particularly the border between El Paso and Juarez? Oh, I should have known. For the first few episodes, The … Continue reading
Comps Rationale Word Clouds
I’m working on a final-final(?) draft of my rationale and I thought it would be interesting to do some word clouds. Here’s my primary list, Long Twentieth Century Multi-ethnic American Literature: Here’s the devised field, Transnational Feminism and Girlhood:
Comps Notes: Texts in the City
Pardon the trite pun. Also, this might not be as interesting as can be, but keeping notes like this will hopefully help me on those comprehensive exams. Urban Spaces, Class, and Race in 20th Century Multi-ethnic American Literature I’ve not read all the books on my list that take place in the city yet, but … Continue reading
