Introduction
I am using this blog to post academic essays I have written concerning the show Xena: Warrior Princess (1995-2001). Essays were originally produced for my college classes, and are built off of each other (so may contain some overlap). All essays are copyrighted to the author and may not be reproduced without permission. I can be contacted at rightofcaste@gmail.com
My reason for turning to Xena as a productive site of scholarly inquiry emerges partly out of what I see as a lack of interest in the show despite a current boom in academic work being done at the intersection of cultural studies and queer studies. I am curious as to why this show has all but fallen off the queer radar screen.
Xena was a historic show in many ways, and is an incredibly valuable and rich text to analyze, especially for the unique ways it deploys multiple texts of desire. I hope my essays do some justice to the show.
I would like to emphasize that these essays are experimental and are considered works-in-progress. I am still an undergraduate (as of Spring 2010) and therefore still learning a great deal about the theory I use in my essays. These essays are, in a sense, my way of understanding theory through a cultural artifact that I believe is relevant and deserves more scholarly attention. My aim was to take a lot of risks with my arguments, and to be persuasive.
I welcome feedback both on the topic as well as my writing (clarity, persuasiveness) & application of theory.
