Little Gold Piece: Fetish Value in Gayl Jones' Corregidora

Abstract: 

This paper argues that in Corregidora, the plantation assigns value and privilege to the fertile female body and demonstrates how the subject’s passionate attachment to her status as sexual fetish causes her to participate in the maintenance of her commodity fetish value.

Presenter Information
First Name: 
Alia
Last Name: 
Pan
Institution: 
University of California, Berkeley