In order to analyze an American image, one must analyze American images: lucid explorations of conflict, hardship, selfhood, merriment, strife, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
These characters and interpretations provide an interesting level of historical queer representation on a larger scale, whether or not they are actually queer.
Each author’s language “is sent, failing, on a wandering journey of endless mediation,” unable to cement and bring home a fixed meaning, leaving their works at the meeting point of music and language.
How do we reconcile our present identity with continuous movement of time, the incessant production of personal history? How do medium and genre modulate the expressions of this existential quandary?
”In search of a bride for their son, elderly women “sometimes look for tall, blonde and white women. You find this not only in Jordan, but also in Syria and in Iraq,” Hijazi says.
Eliot’s representation of the senses is wide, and can be both personal to the intended reader, or more universalized, general descriptions which portray the poignant scenes for which Eliot is so famous.
Music, as a form of expression that is vital to Punjabi articulation regardless of caste/class, loses its potency as a tool for social cohesion if Jatt is truncated to mean Punjabi.
Rebellion against the numbing effects of technology is possible, but it requires a recognition of the self and a connection with the world outside of the numbing medium.