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Reading Esch

A Closer Reading

Emotional Detachment vs. Emotional Attachment

Sexual Pleasure?

Lack of Woman Figure

Asexual Alignment

"Manny touched me first where he always touched me: my ass. [...] He had never kissed me except like this, with his body, not his mouth [...] ...he wanted the other me. The pulpy ripe heart. The sticky heart the boys saw through my boyish frame, my dark skin, my plain face. The girly heart that, before Manny, I'd let boys have because they wanted it, and not because I wanted to give it. I'd let boys have it because for a moment, I was Psyche or Euradice or Daphne. I was beloved. " (Ward 16) 238

Sympathy

No mother

Sex Education?

Naive

Do you sympathize?

No Sympathy

Maturity

Cheater

Recognition of wrongdoing

Overview

How is sex introduced in the novel?

Is Esch presented as sympathetic to the reader?

Does Esch fall into stereotypes about African-Americans?

How Serious is the Sex?: The Sexualization of Esch in Salvage the Bones

“the condition constructed by the posited relation to a privileged centre, an ‘Othering’ directed by the imperial authority” (Ashcroft 102)

Sister Citizen: Shame Stereotypes and Black Women in America

The Margin

Being "Fast"

Jezebel Stereotype

Black Women/Men + Sex

Stereotypes stem from truth? or fiction?

Does black media perpetuate stereotypes?

African-American Stereotypes

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