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Willa Cather "My Antonia"
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Lesbian
Toni Morrison "Sula" |
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| insights not limited to gay community, but shed light on human life. |
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Gay
Tennessee William's "A Streetcar Named Desire" |
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Gay
"The Night of the Iguana" |
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| Queer: Human sexual desire exceeds same-sex/different sex object choice(biological sex of partner) or do not involve object choice at all. |
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Queer
"Beloved"
Nobel Prize for Literature |
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| Ishmael Reed and August Wilson |
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| Two groundbreaking authors of African American criticism |
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| Toni Morrison - internalized racism |
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Double consciousness/vision
"The Souls of Black Folk" cultural conflict: African vs. European |
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| Countee Cullen vs. Langston Hughes |
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| African American Literature |
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| Harriet Jacobs and Fredrick Douglass |
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| African American Literature |
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| Black Arts Movement of the 1960s |
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| Amiri Baraka, Archie Shepp |
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African American
"The Signifying Monkeys" |
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African American
"Invisible Man" signifies Richard Wright's "Native Son" |
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African American
"Mumba Jumbo" signifies Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" |
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| Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic |
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Critical race theory
Disproportionate number of prisoners of color in the U.S.
Conservatism
Delgado: white color vs. street crime
dialogue as legal analysis |
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African American
"The Possessive Investment in Whiteness" |
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No particular set of traits is limited to any one group or 'race'.
75% genes = identical |
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| Kimberle Williams Crenshaw |
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| immigrant working-class women of color and domestic violence |
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| Derrick Bell and Patricia Williams |
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Voice of Color
Bell: racial realism |
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| White privilege: giving up privilege is impossible. "Stop pretending that race does not matter." |
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| provides "a perverse legitimacy" within racial realism |
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| Feminism and Literature/Film |
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Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman"
Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye"
Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"
Howard Hawk's "The Big Sleep" |
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| White American Literature |
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Toni Morrison's "Playing in the Dark"
Ernest Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not" |
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| Fitzgerald and White Literature |
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Jean Toomer's "Cane"
Carl Van Vechten: enthusiast of and well known in Harlem scene.
Robert Forrey: black characters in numerous short stories are trivial, derogatory, comic
Tyler Stovall: notoriously racist passages in "Tender is the Night"
David Levering Lewis: Fitzgerald praised VanVechten's controversial novel, which supported his beliefs about African American inferiority. |
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Lacanian
"The Yellow Wallpaper" |
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Structuralism: Semiotics
professional wrestling |
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| theory of myths, seeks the structural patterns underlying the Western literary tradition. |
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Structuralism
eliminates myth, inserts new category to account for difference b/w comedy and realism. |
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Narratology of Stucturalism
plot formulas, plot movement, actants
*analysis of 20th c. french writer - Georges Bernanos |
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Structuralism
Proposition: character + irreducible action |
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Structuralism
"The Decameron"
states, qualities, conditions
to modify, transgress, punish |
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Structuralism
story, narrative, narration
tense, mood, voice |
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Structuralism
convention of distance and impartiality, naturalization, rule of significance, rule of metaphorical coherence, rule of thematic unity |
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Deconstruction
meaning resides in words (or things) only when we distinguish their difference from other words (or things). |
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Thomas Pynchon "The Crying of Lot"
Joan Didion "Play It as It Lays"
Don DeLillo "White Noise" |
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