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 | | Thus, in its examination of the limits of identity, the novel serves as a principle of articulation among disparate categories of identity, including sex, sexuality, race, and American national identity, in a synthesis that will be of interest to many areas of cultural studies. |
 | | Sanctuary's expression of a trans-textual logic of trauma is thus offered as a supplement to Caruth's Unclaimed Experience—Temple Drake's transgressions of the color line as another "key figure," if you will, one particularly suited to Americanist literary and cultural criticism. |
 | | Not only is the conventional, pulp-ish titillation of her sexual peril overwritten with the trauma of her rape, but it is re-effaced, as it were, as she comes to desire Popeye's substitute, Red, and to desire to display her abjection, in a second, repetitively traumatic negation of the ‘innocent' Temple. |
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