Feminist and Womanist Criticism of African Literature: A Bibliography By Sharon Verba July 20‚ 1997 Those women who struggle without giving up hope‚ herald the impending change...: change in attitude for both men and women as they evaluate and re-evaluate their social roles.... -Rosemary Moyana‚ "Men & Women" Rereading‚ willful misreading‚ and de- and re-coding are tools used in African literature and womanist or feminist discourse to challenge "canonized ’literature ’"
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about supernatural related topics‚ Shelley had a nightmare that eventually structured the main idea and some of the events that occurred in Frankenstein (Shelley 19). Some of the elements seen in her nightmare are clearly present in the novel. For example‚ in her nightmare she mentions how the man “would rush away from his odious handiwork‚ horror-stricken” and in the story itself‚ it mentions how Victor Frankenstein “escaped and rushed downstairs” due to his fear of the creature (Shelley 19‚ 57).
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In tandem with literacy‚ literature has become one of the leading vehicles for social criticism in American history. It amplifies the author’s voice‚ reverberating it throughout the nation‚ molding the history of America by changing the opinions of the people on certain issues. It can induce cries of hope and merriment‚ like John Winthrop’s sermon A Model of Christian Charity‚ which speaks about the optimistic prospect of America as the “City upon a Hill” (Winthrop‚ 84). But it can also elicit the
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connection to the Bundren family. Anse died to her long ago and she felt that her children violated a sense of aloneness (174; 172). The religious significance of her statement is in the confusion of Cora’s over who she was referring to. To Cora‚ an example of the exemplar Christian woman‚ Christ is the savior; she considers Addie’s remark idolatry. It is a violation of the first commandment‚ that nothing or no one shall come before
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spilled over the question of whether the world-view of archetypal auteur Stanley Kubrick is nihilistic or not‚ and appropriately so. To my mind‚ this is one of the most important questions we can ask about genuine artists and their oeuvres. If auteur criticism is to have any validity‚ from a philosophical perspective‚ it must address such issues. True cinematic geniuses (e.g.‚ Bergman‚ Antonioni‚ Wertmuller‚ Hitchcock and Cronenberg‚ to name only a few) have something to teach us about the meaning of life
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The Battle of the Others “All my life I had been looking for something‚ and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was (258).” This quote from the narrator in Ralph Ellison’s Battle Royal demonstrates the influence people played in the narrators self image‚ at times damaging him‚ at times inspiring him. Throughout the story the narrator shows himself as someone who struggles with who he is supposed to be according to his family and society. Through the postcolonial lens it is understood
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Tyra Hinton AP English III Ms. Parrish 20 April 2012 Strength in Numbers Gloria Naylor‚ one of the most renowned writers in the African American culture‚ coexisting the 20th century wrote‚ The Women of Brewster Place‚ with the intent of giving hope to African American women around the world. As Naylor‚ wrote the book‚ she used pastoral interludes to keep God as the scapegoat for the women; however‚ she constantly contradicts the faith of Christianity by the situations they go through‚ such
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A Dual-Criticism Look at The Birthmark Literature is many things: provoking‚ heartwarming‚ emotional‚ traumatic‚ poetic‚ maybe even life-changing. Literature can also be incredibly ambiguous. While literature can be “simply read”‚ when one takes a step back and looks at a piece through specific lenses‚ the work can take on an incredibly different‚ deeper meaning. Taking the lead of criticisms such as formalist‚ psychoanalytical‚ biological‚ feminist‚ Marxist‚ etc.‚ one can dig deeper into a text
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Movie Criticism American film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert use a form of criticism that “considers the organic unity of the unique work” to review the 1978 horror film Halloween (Mays 1974). The form of criticism used‚ is a sub category from Emphasis on the Text‚ which is called New Criticism. Ebert stated that‚ “there is a difference between good and scary movies” before discussing with Siskel why they appreciated this movie. According to Siskel & Ebert‚ this film was “directed with a
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Citizen Kane In 1941‚ the dramatic film Citizen Kane was released by first time director‚ Orson Welles. Welles once said‚ “A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.” With the attitude Welles had in directing‚ it brought him heavy burden filled with controversy amongst newspaper mongrel William Randolph Hearst‚ movie director Howard Hughes and Chicago utilities magnate Samuel Insull for the adaptation of these three personalities in the character‚ Kane. Upon Citizen
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