... about belonging, about what you have in common with some people and what differentiates you from others.""(Jeffrey Weeks, The Value of difference, in J. Rutherford (ed.), Identity: Community, Culture, Difference, London, 1990). People are especially made aware of these discrepancies through the use of the huge amount of different markers which are bestowed to them, and which are all intimately linked ... fixed, coherent and stable is displaced by the experience of doubt and uncertainty-( Kobena Mercer , Welcome to the jungle: identity and diversity in postmodern politics in Identity, Co...

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... , the term "realism" encompasses the period of time from 1865 to the turn of the century during which such famous authors as Mark Twain, Rebecca Harding Davis, Sarah Orne Jewett, Jack London, Henry James and others wrote fiction devoted to accurate representation and an exploration of American lives. As the United States grew rapidly after the Civil War, as did the increasing ... ...

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