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Tammis Thomas is an associate professor of English at the University of Houston-Downtown. Her teaching and scholarship focus on the construction of masculinity in German and English literature and culture.
(See my biography page for more information).
Publications:
| Proliferations of the Closet in the Culture War Over "Brokeback Mountain" | |||
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Utilizing Eve Sedgwick’s theorization of the closet, this paper analyzes the homosexual closet in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain. |
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| Useless Violence and Useful Profit: The Auschwitz Borderland in Peter Weiss’s the Investigation | |||
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This analysis will be grounded in Primo Levi’s theorization of “useless violence” and his configuration of the Nazi camp system as an “open universe” of conjoined profit and violence. |
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| Literary Representations of Auschwitz: Tadeusz Borowski and the Sociological Analysis of Graduated Power | |||
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Utilizing Wolfgang Sofsky’s theorization of graduated power and Primo Levi’s analysis of the gray zone, this paper examines Tadeusz Borowski’s Auschwitz stories as sociological representations of internal structure of Auschwitz |
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