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标题：Slippery Signifiers in Gayle Weitz’sFoxy, Chickenhearted, and Harebrained Humananimals
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作者：Deborah L. Smith-Shank with contributions by Gayle M. Weitz
期刊名称：Visual Culture & Gender
印刷版ISSN：1936-1912
出版年度：2012
卷号：7
页码：49-54
出版社：Northern Illinois University
摘要：Gayle Marie Weitz is an artist and educator whose large scale, fantastic creatures, which she calls "humananimals" engage the child-me, and take me to a place of charm and peace where animals can speak Eng-lish, play games, and share their wisdom. This is a place of dreams where nobody hurts, hunts, hungers, or yells except in joy. This is a place of simplicity and acceptance surrounded by wonder. These humananimals accept my child-self just as I accept them unconditionally. The grownup me steeped in visual culture critique and feminist theory has a little more trouble. I can't escape the baggage that has been acquired over years of living within the multiple discourses of identity and I suspect that there is more to these animals than meets my child-self's na.ve longing for peace, playmates, and security