Carine Mardorossian- PhD
- Professor (Full) at University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Carine Mardorossian
- PhD
- Professor (Full) at University at Buffalo, State University of New York
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Introduction
I am currently working on a book in the Medical Humanities.
My other research interests include postcolonial and feminist studies, Caribbean studies and creative nonfiction.
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June 1990 - August 2000
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Publications (38)
Pre-death dreams and visions (end-of-life experiences) have been documented throughout history and across cultures. Yet, despite their universality and clinical significance, they have rarely been explained in a care-giving framework or presented as being clinically relevant. This chapter will explore this topic from the perspective of the dying ra...
Mardorossian uses Wide Sargasso Sea as a template for ways of rethinking race and gender relations in the aftermaths of #MeToo. The novel’s juxtaposition of the sexual subjugation of the voiced white creole female protagonist with that of the voiceless black creole women shows that an interracial alliance between women requires two things: first, c...
Through a discussion of Mayra Montero’s In the Palm of Darkness , this chapter examines and challenges what Caribbean novelist Wilson Harris identified as “the break which occurred between science and art, science and an imaginative psychological, even magical apprehension of the universe” (41). The novel reveals that it is in the violent subjugati...
We argue that unless Alt Ac is explicitly contextualized in relation to the triangulated dynamic that led to the erosion of tenure (adjunctification-administrification-job market crisis), we need to refrain from promoting it as anything other than as the band-aid approach that obscures higher education’s administrative take over by our very own 1%....
Edwidge Danticat’s prolific body of work has established her as one of the most important voices in 21st century literary culture. Across such novels as Farming the Bones and Krik? Krak!, essays, journalism and writing for children, the Haitian American writer has tackled such important contemporary themes as racism, anti-immigrant politics, sexual...
This chapter uses the representation of sex acts in Wide Sargasso Sea to help think through the workings of agency, gender and race in contemporary responses to sexual violence in the United States. Even a sexual act that is not represented as rape in the novel nonetheless needs to be read in the context of the long history of rape since slavery an...
Madness has historically functioned as a powerful trope in postcolonial fiction, but as an aspect of characterization, it also has the potential to lead to unidimensional characters. This is a problem in a field like postcolonial studies in which identifying with characters is typically how Western readers engage the perspective of the “other.” Car...
The consensus in ecocriticism today is that deconstructing the human/nonhuman binary is crucial if we want humanity to care for the environment. Indeed, viewing the environment as something to which we are connected is seen as more conducive to producing an environmentalist consciousness than seeing it as something categorically other. By contrast,...
In “What is an Author?” Michel Foucault reframes the author as an “author-function” that has historically been produced through its interaction with both the text and its audience. In this essay, I deploy Foucault’s unsettling of the author as origin and use it as a lens through which to make sense of the Rhys protagonist. Specifically, I examine w...
In recent years, members of legal, law enforcement, media and academic circles have portrayed rape as a special kind of crime distinct from other forms of violence. In Framing the Rape Victim, Carine M. Mardorossian argues that this differential treatment of rape has exacerbated the ghettoizing of sexual violence along gendered lines and has repeat...
Over the last few decades, Caribbean studies has been instrumental in reconfiguring the meanings of the national, geographical, sexual, and racial concepts through which postcolonial studies had traditionally defined difference. Specifically, its attention to trans-cultural exchanges both inside and across national, racial, linguistic, and class bo...
In Apocalyptic Futures: Marked Bodies and the Violence of the Text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee, Russell Samolsky focuses on modern literary texts, Kafka’s “The Penal Colony,” Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, and J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians, that fictionalize not “an open and utopian future” (1) but an apocalyptic one that “reflec...
This article is a cultural analysis of how sexualized violence in the United States penal system is mediated by neo-conservative configurations of victimization that work to obscure gendered and racialized dimensions of violence against women in prison. I argue that the meanings of the term ‘victim’ over the last decade have undergone significant r...
An analysis of Disgrace's representation of sexual violence exposes the inextricability of the social categories of gender, class, and race insofar as these identities are shown to accrue meaning in relation to one another rather than a posteriori. Specifically, the novel demonstrates that rape is not primarily a gendered crime that is then complic...
The Martinican philosopher, psychiatrist, and social revolutionary Frantz Fanon is considered one of the pioneering figures of postcolonial studies. As an icon of postcolonialism, an increasingly institutionalized field, Fanon has thus come to be associated with what is primarily an anglophone critical enterprise and area of study. The resulting â€...
Hospitals have adopted a rhetoric of family-centered maternity care, and one of the ways in which they show their commitment to it is through the integration of the husband-as-coach model of childbirth (the Bradley method) into delivery practices. I argue that this model's widespread popularity testifies less to the culture's endorsement of a woman...
Carine M. Mardorossian In Praise of New Travelers: Reading Caribbean Women's Writing. By Isabel Hoving. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2001. Isabel Hoving's In Praise of New Travelers: Reading Caribbean Women's Writing analyzes, in the author's own words, "the extraordinary position of Caribbean migrant women's writing" in postcolonial studies by exami...
Ces articles debattent des reflexions theoriques et empiriques concernant les discours de victimisation des femmes par rapport au viol. Les AA. se penchent ici sur les theories feministes existentes et plus particulierement de l'inluence des theories post-modernes sur la condition feminine
Callaloo 22.4 (1999) 1071-1090
This paper explores Wide Sargasso Sea's articulation of race and gender in the context of a debate that has been waged within feminist postcolonial studies around the representation of racial otherness. On the one hand, critics like Benita Parry contend that we need to recover historically repressed knowledges and to...
Printout. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 260-284).
