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Locating Ben Okri as a cosmopolitan and migrant writer rather than a Nigerian national writer has been an important consideration in the analysis of his work. He occupies the liminal zone between the borders of nation which produces a distinct subjectivity in comparison to those…

My dissertation focuses on the performativity of gender identity projected in German literary works around 1800. I focus on the one hand on definitions of essential femininity, and on the other hand, on the way these definitions are called into question through the strategies of…

Can practices perceived as maternal, such as caring, be used strategically as forms of resistance? Can this be done without reinforcing the existing gender norms and power relations? What are the implications of such a strategic use on our understanding of questions of essential…