HOW SEXY IS IT?

Strategic formulas that use ethnicity: 'ethnic is beautiful'; race: 'black is beautiful'; and, according to Ludwig Ammann more recently religion: 'Muslim is beautiful,' became familiar slogans, whose omnipresence was established at an astonishingly fast pace.2 (Un)Desir...

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Published in:Michigan feminist studies 2004-01 (18), p.59
Main Author: Blazan, Sladja
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ethnicity
Hemon, Aleksandar (1964- )
Ideology
Literary criticism
Polish language
Religion
Sexuality
Slogans
Society
Theory
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Summary:Strategic formulas that use ethnicity: 'ethnic is beautiful'; race: 'black is beautiful'; and, according to Ludwig Ammann more recently religion: 'Muslim is beautiful,' became familiar slogans, whose omnipresence was established at an astonishingly fast pace.2 (Un)Desirability of ethnic characteristics, just like in the case of race and religion, proved to be a fertile ground for ideology. A pattern that lead Mary Dearborn to coin the phrase "Pocahontas's Daughters" in order to describe the process of entering national/ethnic social spaces through sexual encounters.6 However, instead of coming to an end where her predecessors Mary Antin and Elisabeth Stern (Polish American writers of the Great Migration at the turn of the century) did, namely at describing the process of falling in love with a so-called real American man and becoming part of "society" by spending time in his company, Hoffman goes on to explain the quality of this love to herself and to her readers.
ISSN:1055-856X