Document Type
Special Forum
Publication Date
9-22-2018
Abstract
Taking up Roland Barthes’s concept of the “third meaning,” Kojima analyzes the character of Julie Kikuchi, the Japanese American love interest of the grown-up Cal. Taking Julie seriously as a character beyond mere plot contrivance and cultural reference, Kojima invites us to consider the intertwined histories of economic rise and fall, trans-Pacific wars, and other intimacies that Middlesex remains entangled in yet fails to fully acknowledge.
Recommended Citation / Citation recommandée
Kojima, Dai.
"Trans-Pacific Imaginaries and Queer Intimacies in the Ruins of Middlesex."
The Goose, vol. 17
,
no.
1
, article 57,
2018,
https://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/vol17/iss1/57.
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