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| Difference between Female and Male narratives (6) |
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-female narratives:
>published after civil war.
>were given less historial credibility
>provided first-hand account of sexual exploitation of slave women.
>stressed the need to protect and form bonds with their children.
>used the Theme of Motherhood to find common ground with white women.
>usually devoted larger portions of their stories to help they recieved from other people. (said they alot?) |
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| How does Jacobs author a convincing story when she lacks cultural authority? (4) |
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-describes herself as admirably maternal and domestic
-always wanted to build a home for her children
-she downplays the importance o sexual purity in favour of motherhood (slavery system corrupted me, i did it for my children)
-she uses the third person point of view narration to distance herself from the reader's judgment. (collective experience of all slave women.)
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| Type of narrative used by douglass and jacobs (1 thing in common) |
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| Familiar form: the intimate, emotionally expressive, melodramatic style of the nineteenth-century romance novel. |
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| Compare the two styles of Douglass vs. Jacobs |
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Douglass - teacherly and preacherly. adventure-like. has morals like bible.
Jabocs - tragic romantic heroin rather than black slave women. "Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester" |
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Literary Devices Jacobs uses
(3) |
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>19 century romance (appealing to women)
>Bildungsroman (novel dealing with a character's quest for identity from child to adulthood.)
>Symbolism (Flint: hard quartz, rigidity... Sand: soft, not countable or solid) |
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What is Jim Crow law?
(root of word + application in Incidents) |
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Jim crow was a clown, a white person who painted their face black and pretended to act like a baboob.
For people who were racist, this justified slavery, slaves are foolish so they are servants.
Derogatory term
the Law itself was "separate but equal" but it led to discrimination and racism.
Jacobs could ride the train but had to ride in the last car in the train because of the Jim Crow Law(segregation), and witers refused to wait on her. (p.144) |
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| Internalizing (ideological) social norms and roles through acts of "hailing" |
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| What was Althusser's Revision of Marxism? |
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superstructure above economic base.
-Superstructures: imagination, politics, religion, art, philosophy)
-Economic Base: economy, social workers.
>"the state is a machine of repression, enforced by the army, police, courts, and prisons, that reinforces the economic base (and thus keeps working classes down)
Althusser: repressive state apparatuses and idiological sate apparatuses work together (through both violence and ideology) to maintina the status quo.
:. Ideology interpullates people as subjects.... subjects can be tuned into words hailing them. |
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| Compare and Contrast: Subject vs. Agent |
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Agent: has capcity to act withiin a given situation.
Subject: made subject to somethign else, society in which they live, aren't self determining, are limited.
Through acts of hailing, people become subjects. |
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| Liberal Humanism is what? |
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| People are freely self determining. (douglass?...) |
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| when was Incidents in the life of a slave girl written? |
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a cultural condition prevailing in the advanced capitalist societies since he 1960's characterized by a superabundance of disconnected images ans styles - most noticeably in television, advertising, commercial design and pop video.
Pomo trivializes cultural issues. History and knowledge not a perspective.
The past is seen through the window of the present, playing with history. Viewing history from a contemporary perspective.
Reality is constructed through language, Hence meaning is always undecidable because language itself needs to be interpreted.
Challenges the distinction between, (fiction and nonfiction) (myth and history)
Parodies historical fiction.
Reed purposely confuses real personalities with fictional characters.
Reed plays with time. Also, he conspicuously alludes to and borrows from other texts. |
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-above or beyond realism.
-like dreams it is a collection of random images juxtuposed to formualte a message.
Surrealism is a good device for Toni to use in her novel because psycholigcal abuse and trauma are irrational, and surrealism is a good way of showing that irrationality. |
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we are not really conscious of time being this way. What we do is we select from the stream. Those selectiosn become our reality. Reality comprises moments we selecte from the stream and choose to remember.
True time only exists within ourselves.
Sethe cannot distinguish between time. She is haunted by history, no bounderies for her consiousness and chronology. no bdays to mark time. stuck in time. reader is unaware of events happening. |
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What makes Beloved a stream of consciousness?
(list all the ways it is a stream of consciousness) |
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Fragmented images (dreamlike consciousness/unconsciousness).
No intervening narrator, just hear them thinking.
No chronological order of time. no markers like bdays to tell us about the year and elapsed time.
Various people's thoughts and memories are intertwined.
Tragedy has been experienced and as a result there is no sense of reality.
Surrealism is employed to illustrate hte irrationality of abuse and trauma.
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1.leads preaches, preaches love for yourself, your abused body, cherich it.
2.She can forgive despite being raped repeatedly.Can still see the good.
3.Her trade was a shoe cobbler. Repairs the soul.Would make shoes for escaping slaves.underground railroad.
4.As she is dying she craves colour=diversity. tired of dichotomy. scraps of hope to brighten her last days.
Real name: Jenny witlow |
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-racial mixing
-marriages between blacks and whites
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intentional spreading of ideas for the purpose of either helping or undermining a cause, institution, or person.
Ideologially neutral= not intentionally being propagandistic but never the less saying something is best. |
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Is jacobs a sympathetic heroine?
Did she feel a triumph in choosing Sands over Flint? |
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| She was able to fight back the hold that slavery had on her enough to choose which one to have sex with. She tells us not to put our situtation in her's because in those times everything was different and she was able to feel proud because it was a triumph but in her circumstances. Our world is different, different rules. |
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Rhetoric
Jacobs's use of it. |
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the use of words by human agents to form attitudes or to induce actions in other human agents.
Audiences and purpose. Find common ground with others so they can buy it better.
Ex: Jacobs uses virtue - especially sexual purity, domesticity, and submissiveness to relate to audience. |
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| Approriation (skip for final exam) |
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the action of taking something for one's own use, typicaly without the owner's permission.
In sociology - in text, the reader does not find him or herself brought into question, but does not find him or herself assosiated with it |
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A set of social assumptions about human life or culture (which aren't necessarily consciously acknowledged.)
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Parody: mocking imitation
Satire: exposes the failings of individuals, insititutions, or socieities to ridicule. |
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