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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of interpellate.

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Examples

  • So I'm this person in Spanish and Portuguese who generally does teach some Afro-Latin literature, and so on, has an interest in such things, is typically interpellated as the 'outside person' on 'minority' related dissertations in English and so on, because I'm more or less conversant ... and of course we know one should teach African American things because they're key

    Speaking of "Affirmative Action for White Guys"... Anxious Black Woman 2008

  • Again there is some part of me that wonders whether I am so thoroughly interpellated into the discourse of the confessional that telling of these incidents feels like the only recourse amidst a very real experience of disempowerment: through this lens my indiscretions are brave rather than foolish, I am speaking a truth rather than indulging in potentially defamatory gossip.

    Dear Intertubes Kirsty 2007

  • Again there is some part of me that wonders whether I am so thoroughly interpellated into the discourse of the confessional that telling of these incidents feels like the only recourse amidst a very real experience of disempowerment: through this lens my indiscretions are brave rather than foolish, I am speaking a truth rather than indulging in potentially defamatory gossip.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Kirsty 2007

  • All three genres seek to arouse powerful emotions in the reader, who can be interpellated either as the victim or the victimizer.

    'Mummy, possest': Sadism and Sensibility in Shelley's _Frankenstein_ 2003

  • As an incoherent assemblage of biological and cultural energies, each open to indefinite mutual recombinations or failed combinations that can register at various points on the scale from general experience to complete idiosyncrasy, the "subject" can never be apprehended, however often it is interpellated and in whatever terms (language, desire, class, gender and so on).

    Is Literary History the History of Everything? The Case for 'Antiquarian' History 2002

  • Being pulled and interpellated by half a dozen attendants, my course was to look stupid, and to pretend ignorance of the language.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • In returning idealism to the question of embodiment, Schelling unavoidably confronts the concomitant question of sexual difference; but he also holds the question away, and economizes it to the degree that his argument is itself complexly interpellated into the patriarchal structures of the Symbolic order.

    Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy 2000

  • The French mismanaged the affair, the news leaked out, Bismarck was interpellated by the new North German Reichstag, and the king of the Netherlands drew back from the arrangements he had made.

    1867, April 2001

  • And not a hundredth part of such accused persons can cause a Minister of the Crown to be interpellated on their behalf.

    Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

  • At the colloquy of Worms, 1557, Melanchthon, interpellated by Brenz, is reported to have said that the passage in his _Loci_ of 1548 defining free will as the faculty of applying oneself to grace referred to the regenerated will (_voluntas renata_), as, he said, appeared from the context.

    Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894

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