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Volume 11 - Spring 1996

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  • The Voice on the Skin: Self-Mutilation and Merleau-Ponty's Theory of Language

  • Janice McLane
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    11 March 2020, pp. 107-118

  • Self-mutilation is generally seen only as a negative response to trauma. But when trauma cannot be expressed, other forms of communication become necessary. As gestural communication, self-mutilation can reorganize and stabilize the trauma victim's world, providing a “voice on the skin” when the actual voice is forbidden. This is a plausible extension of Merleau-Ponty's gestural theory of language, and an interesting comment on his notion of “reversibility” as essential to linguistic communication.

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    11 March 2020, pp. 197-199
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  • Double Binds: Latin American Women's Prison Memories

  • Mary Jane Treacy
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    11 March 2020, pp. 130-145

  • Scant attention given to gender in Latin American prison experiences implies that men and women suffer similarly and react according to their shared beliefs. This essay explores the prison memoirs of four Latin American women. Each account uses a standardized prison narrative adjusted to suit the narrator's own purpose and hints at how sexuality and motherhood, which shape women's experiences in prison, have been removed from sight.

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    25 March 2020, pp. 208-210
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