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nexusA software module in Microsoft's Windows security platform (see NGSCB). The word stands for a connecting point or bond between two entities. See also LexisNexis. nexus [′nek·səs] (communications) A connection or interconnection of a communications system, such as a data link or a network of branches and nodes. (physiology) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Because her plays focus on the mulatta caught between and among nexi of identity--whiteness-blackness, maleness-femaleness, sanity-madness, and so on--Kennedy's "hermetic" writing (Sollors 507) also serves a communal cathartic purpose: "These dramas are to some degree exorcising personal and collective racial traumas and have anger, the urge to communicate and (attempted) liberation as motivating forces" (Binder 99). Mukherjee demonstrates that the most successful "selves" are mutable, shifting, postmodern nexi of various negotiated, contingent positions. |
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