id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt m326m041z0w Robinson Murphy Castration Desire: Less Is More in Global Anglophone Literature 1904 .txt text/plain 266 7 21 In addition to providing a novel optic through which to read a diversity of text-types, castration desire provides analytical tools for responding to the current apocalyptic track over which the globalized logic of normative masculine individualism otherwise operates. In place of masculine egoism, Anglophone writers such as Sri Lankan-Canadian Michael Ondaatje, South African-Australian J.M. Coetzee, Japanese-British Kazuo Ishiguro, Chinese-American David Henry Hwang, and Irish-Canadian Emma Donoghue offer prototypes in their characters for generating the less-is-more ethos of castration desire. cache/m326m041z0w.txt txt/m326m041z0w.txt