title: Ruptures of vulnerability: Linda Stein's Knight Series.
abstract: Drawing on the work of Monique Wittig, this article understands Linda Stein's Knight Series as a lacunary writing communicating both her challenges to come to representation and her creative registration of subjectivity. The argument is grounded in an exploration of the rich interplay of power and vulnerability across the series as against the discourse of escapist fashion. Specifically, Stein's critical contradictions of inside and outside, conflated temporality, disjunctions between decoration and abstraction, and fluidity of sex and gender are examined. The discussion is elaborated through consideration of the work of Julia Kristeva, Elizabeth Grosz, and Hayao Miyazaki.
authors.affiliation: avbible@gmail.com
authors.forename: Ann Vollmann
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Bible
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D018452:Homosexuality, Female; D006801:Humans; D012613:Sculpture