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I want to suggest that this work once again interpellates a specific kind of viewer: that segment of the white population plagued by guilt. Paradise's women reveal the "scraps, patches and rags of daily life" that, in the production of narrating the nation, Bhabha explains, "must be repeatedly turned into the signs of a coherent national culture, while the very act of the narrative performance interpellates a growing circle of national subjects. Although Birdie's mother is not passing as Jewish herself, she interpellates Birdie in Yiddish, even if "meshugga nebbish" does not make much sense as a term of affection. |
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