Material Information |
| Title: |
Identity in the House of Difference Constructing the Situational Subject in Audre Lorde's Zami |
| Physical Description: |
Book |
| Language: |
English |
| Creator: |
Balon, Rebecca |
| Publisher: |
New College of Florida |
| Place of Publication: |
Sarasota, Fla. |
| Creation Date: |
2006 |
| Publication Date: |
2006 |
Subjects |
| Subjects / Keywords: |
Lorde, Audre
Lesbian
Butler, Judith
Zami
African-American Feminist Theory
Feminism
Queer Theory |
| Genre: |
bibliography ( marcgt )
theses ( marcgt )
government publication (state, provincial, terriorial, dependent) ( marcgt )
born-digital ( sobekcm )
Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
Notes |
| Abstract: |
Audre Lorde's biomythography Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982) is a key text from the interventions made by women of color and lesbians within the feminist movement in the 1980s. In this thesis, I argue that significant trends in recent feminist and queer theory, particularly the theories of positionality, performativity and embodiment, are responses to the need to retheorize identity and difference in the wake of these interventions. I argue that in Zami, Lorde establishes a constant tension between the fixed, stable model of identity characteristic of identity politics and a model that embraces the fluidity and multiplicity of identity. Specifically, in her formulation of racial identity as performative and in her depiction of the creation of identities within the lesbian bars of 1950s New York, Lorde synthesizes positionality, performativity and embodiment to create a situational, contingent model of identity that accounts for the positionalities of the mobile body embedded in the contexts of space and time. |
| Statement of Responsibility: |
by Rebecca Balon |
| Thesis: |
Thesis (B.A.) -- New College of Florida, 2006 |
| Electronic Access: |
RESTRICTED TO NCF STUDENTS, STAFF, FACULTY, AND ON-CAMPUS USE |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Source of Description: |
This bibliographic record is available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication. The New College of Florida, as creator of this bibliographic record, has waived all rights to it worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. |
| Local: |
Faculty Sponsor: Wallace, Miriam |
Record Information |
| Source Institution: |
New College of Florida |
| Holding Location: |
New College of Florida |
| Rights Management: |
Applicable rights reserved. |
| Classification: |
local - S.T. 2006 B17 |
| System ID: |
NCFE003602:00001 |
|
Material Information |
| Title: |
Identity in the House of Difference Constructing the Situational Subject in Audre Lorde's Zami |
| Physical Description: |
Book |
| Language: |
English |
| Creator: |
Balon, Rebecca |
| Publisher: |
New College of Florida |
| Place of Publication: |
Sarasota, Fla. |
| Creation Date: |
2006 |
| Publication Date: |
2006 |
Subjects |
| Subjects / Keywords: |
Lorde, Audre
Lesbian
Butler, Judith
Zami
African-American Feminist Theory
Feminism
Queer Theory |
| Genre: |
bibliography ( marcgt )
theses ( marcgt )
government publication (state, provincial, terriorial, dependent) ( marcgt )
born-digital ( sobekcm )
Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
Notes |
| Abstract: |
Audre Lorde's biomythography Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982) is a key text from the interventions made by women of color and lesbians within the feminist movement in the 1980s. In this thesis, I argue that significant trends in recent feminist and queer theory, particularly the theories of positionality, performativity and embodiment, are responses to the need to retheorize identity and difference in the wake of these interventions. I argue that in Zami, Lorde establishes a constant tension between the fixed, stable model of identity characteristic of identity politics and a model that embraces the fluidity and multiplicity of identity. Specifically, in her formulation of racial identity as performative and in her depiction of the creation of identities within the lesbian bars of 1950s New York, Lorde synthesizes positionality, performativity and embodiment to create a situational, contingent model of identity that accounts for the positionalities of the mobile body embedded in the contexts of space and time. |
| Statement of Responsibility: |
by Rebecca Balon |
| Thesis: |
Thesis (B.A.) -- New College of Florida, 2006 |
| Electronic Access: |
RESTRICTED TO NCF STUDENTS, STAFF, FACULTY, AND ON-CAMPUS USE |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Source of Description: |
This bibliographic record is available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication. The New College of Florida, as creator of this bibliographic record, has waived all rights to it worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. |
| Local: |
Faculty Sponsor: Wallace, Miriam |
Record Information |
| Source Institution: |
New College of Florida |
| Holding Location: |
New College of Florida |
| Rights Management: |
Applicable rights reserved. |
| Classification: |
local - S.T. 2006 B17 |
| System ID: |
NCFE003602:00001 |
|