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react
(redirected from reacts against)

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See: perceive, reply, respond, return


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DuPlessis offers an astute interpretation of this failure in "Seismic Orgasm" where she argues that "Songs" reacts against the tendency to link narrative climax and sexual climax.
While the tiny, soft Rochelle works as a whore, both by choice and in reaction to her mother's Catholic repressions, Helene reacts against her mother and follows Cecile's stifled, class-conscious path, raising her own daughter to "pull" her nose.
As Quinn-Miscall concludes, "To put it simply, sinners are sinners and God reacts against them whether they are Israelite, Assyrian, or any humans" (157).
 
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