Reviews for Playing God

The average rating for Playing God based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-01-04 00:00:00 Sarah K Fourth space is a negative extension based on the Soja's conception of third space. Whearas Soja's third space provides a site for contention and resistance for marginalized group and relevant individuals, fourth space offer no way out and the subjects entrapped seek liberation only in death. The author analyzes ten texts to explore how the characters suffer from ontological and symbolic violence unconditionally. The argumentation is not fully convincing, I think. Dorothy Allison's heroine decontructs the masculinity myth of poor whites and establishes new set of normalcy outside social norms about sex orientation. Allison's social space cannot be considered as fourth space, in this sense.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-08-05 00:00:00 Mike Krause An extremely useful guide to trends and movements and the current state of the novel.