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Article: "That was nifty": Willow Rosenberg saves the world in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.(Critical essay)
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- Shofar
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- June 22, 2007
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The extent to which ethnicity permeates an understanding of identity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer is apparent from the ways in which species difference stands in for racial or ethnic difference. However, among its many points of contact with ethnicity, one that is especially curious is the case of Willow Rosenbergs disappearing Jewishness. As a character, she shifts from nerd, to poster-child for geek-chic, she suffers from major addiction, is a lesbian and ends up as something approaching a goddess. She is also, intermittently, Jewish. The paper encourages a reading of Willow that sees her as cool and occasionally as Jewish but not necessarily as Jewish cool. To that extent, ...
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Article: Fans slay network [Buffy the Vampire Slayer]
Herizons;
April 1, 2003 ;
445 words
... ... former Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans is biting back ... with her lover, Willow. According to Fans of Willow and Tara, Buffy ... lesbians, Buffy the Vampire Slayer has reversed its ... according to Fans of Willow and Tara spokeswoman ...
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