WGS 376 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Identity Function, Chessboard, Absolution
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Explore the construction and effect of multiple identities. Identity, specifically gender identity, is the centripetal force in the novel. It functions as the main thread through which all else is able to sensibly function. The construction of multiple identities is not always intentional, often fluid, and also completely contextual and complex. (notes from class) leaves identity of nun behind, then lives with man and refuses to marry him because she feels she is the bride of christ, never truly left her nun identity and her relationship with. Then she takes on the role of father damien. Whereupon the stooped old man straightened, magically broadened, and waved a hand across his face very much as she herself had, in the road, to erase her thoughts. He removed his glasses and from beneath his robe drew a snubbed-nose pistol, which he pointed straight at miss dewitt"s forehead. (25)
