{"id":11747,"date":"2011-01-26T21:57:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T21:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11747"},"modified":"2011-01-27T22:46:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T22:46:32","slug":"stepping-into-the-same-river-twice-internalexternal-subversion-of-the-insideoutside-dialectic-in-alice-walkers-the-temple-of-my-familiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11747","title":{"rendered":"Stepping into the Same River Twice: Internal\/External Subversion of the Inside\/Outside Dialectic in Alice Walker\u2019s \u201cThe Temple of My Familiar\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stepping into the Same River Twice: Internal\/External Subversion of the Inside\/Outside Dialectic in Alice Walker\u2019s \u201cThe Temple of My Familiar\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Journal of Bisexuality<\/a>
\nVolume 2, Issue 2 & 3<\/a> (October 2002)
\npages 53-71
\nDOI: 10.1300\/J159v02n02_04<\/a><\/p>\n

Sikorski Grace<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of English
\nAnne Arundel Community College, Maryland<\/em><\/p>\n

Passing<\/a> novels, exemplified here by E. Lynn Harris’s<\/a> Invisible Life<\/a><\/em>, often perpetuate the representation of bisexuality and\/or bi-racial identity as a tension on the border between communities and bodies that threatens to break down or leak when tested. Alice Walker<\/a> offers an alternative representation of sexual and racial terrain for such hybrid identities. In The Temple of My Familiar<\/a><\/em>, the characterization of Lissie, a multiple reincarnation, and the use of skin as a charged metaphor bring categories of sexual and racial purity to the point of collapse, suggesting the potential to reimagine identity as plural, fluctuating, regenerative, erogenous and permeable.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Read or purchase the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stepping into the Same River Twice: Internal\/External Subversion of the Inside\/Outside Dialectic in Alice Walker\u2019s \u201cThe Temple of My Familiar\u201d Journal of Bisexuality Volume 2, Issue 2 & 3 (October 2002) pages 53-71 DOI: 10.1300\/J159v02n02_04 Sikorski Grace, Associate Professor of English Anne Arundel Community College, Maryland Passing novels, exemplified here by E. Lynn Harris’s Invisible […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,666,1196,8],"tags":[717,5316,5315,5314],"class_list":["post-11747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-gaylesbian","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-alice-walker","tag-e-lynn-harris","tag-journal-of-bisexuality","tag-sikorski-grace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}