“Jus’ hol’ yuh breath an’ kick”: Queer Self-Made Womanhood in Nicole Dennis-Benn’s “Swimmer”
This article performs a close reading of the essay “Swimmer,” written by the Jamaican American novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn and published in the anthology The Good Immigrant USA: 26 Writers Reflect on America (2019). On the one hand, “Swimmer” endorses the myths of the self-made man and the American...
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University of Bucharest
2024-12-01
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| Online Access: | https://intersections-journal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/4.-TP-final.pdf |
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