Her poetry is best known for stark, detailed examinations of gender violence, identity, non-recognition, genocide and spaces of abjection ( walls, the camp, death march, exile ).
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The concept of abjection is often coupled ( and sometimes confused ) with the idea of the uncanny, the concept of something being " un-home-like ", or foreign, yet familiar.
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As one recent critic puts it, the " dirt " which Zhang saw in the book was not the sexual transgressions but the " ethical abjections, " which were intended to form a moral fable.
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To the movie's young, gay Hispanic Brooklynites, who are addicted to the program, " Dos Vidas " isn't just a guilty pleasure but an immersion course in romantic abjection.
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The panel discussed the films'representation of gender, sexuality, abjection, and the female protagonists'management of horror as well as how the films differed from mainstream commercial horror films and from international horror films.
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In " Powers of Horror " ( 1980 ), where Julia Kristeva elaborates her theory of abjection, she recognizes the influence of Douglas s fundamental work, while criticizing certain aspects of her approach.
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The abject can be uncanny in the sense that we can recognize aspects in it, despite its being " foreign " : a corpse, having fallen out of the symbolic order, creates abjection through its uncanninesscreates a cognitive dissonance.
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Abjection can be uncanny in that the observer can recognize something within the abject, possibly of what it was before it was'cast out', yet be repulsed by what it is that made it cast out to begin with.
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Rivette's articles, admired by his peers, were considered the magazine's best and most aggressive writings, particularly his 1961 article " On Abjection " and his influential series of interviews with film directors co-written with Truffaut.
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Many of those elements are here, starting with paintings done before he had discovered silk-screening : brushy figures of Dick Tracy and Popeye, fragmented advertisements for bodybuilding, hernia repairs, nose jobs, a lexicon of bodily abjection and transfiguration.
