WOMAN IN BLACK ENGLISH LITERATURE • THE EXAM DATE- 22nd May 2012 @08:45 am • 1 hour 30 mins YOU MUST BRING YOUR TEXTS TO SCHOOL FOR THE EXAM! |SECTION A |SECTION B | |Spend 45 mins |Spend 45 mins | |
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“The Woman in Black” by Susan Hill features many elements of gothic literature. Gothic literature uses the elements of death‚ gloom‚ fear‚ and mystery. The setting of this book is in London at some point in the early 1900’s. When Author Kipps starts telling his story‚ it begins in London when it was very foggy. He described it as “the thickest of London peasoupers” (Hill). The fog foreshadows on how the rest of the book will be‚ dark and gloomy. Hills’s use of the fog and sea mist‚ the funeral of
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The Intersection Identity of the Black Woman While the term ‘intersectionality’ was first coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989‚ the idea had been employed in Black feminist texts decades before. This essay examines how African-American women experience intersections of gender and race. First‚ I briefly look at how the concept of intersectionality was conceived and its importance as a tool of analysis. Second‚ I examine the oppression Black women are subject to within both gender and race. Then‚
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The Woman in White Stage 6 activities answers Before Reading 5 before reADing Activities (pAge 108) Activity 1 before reading Open answers. Encourage discussion. 6 Activity 2 before reading Several answers are possible for each gap. Suggestions: In thrillers of this kind‚ the mystery is usually solved in the end‚ though often in an unexpected way. The good characters have to struggle against the forces of evil‚ but they learn from their mistakes‚ and usually live happily
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Black Skin‚ White Masks www.plutobooks.com Revolution‚ Democracy‚ Socialism V.I. Lenin Edited by Paul Le Blanc 9780745327600 Selected Writings Black Skin‚ White Masks Frantz Fanon Forewords by Homi K. Bhabha and Ziauddin Sardar 9780745328485 Jewish History‚ Jewish Religion The Weight of Three Thousand Years Forewords by Pappe / Mezvinsky/ Said / Vidal 9780745328409 Israel Shahak The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Introduction by David Harvey 9780745328461
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rights had not been passed whereas grace Nichol’s fat black women poem had been written after the women’s rights movements‚ grace Nichol’s was living in London where we had a woman prime minister and the independence of woman was very much different from the 1914. In the 1980’s was when the third wave of feminism‚ women now had rights however there was still a patriarchal attitude running through the veins of society. Grace Nichols being black and a women meant that she would of been fighting for
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Alistair MacLeod’s The Boat Character Analysis of the Father The father in Alistair MacLeod‘s short story The Boat‚ struggled with the constant feeling of imprisonment every single day. He was both a physically and mentally drained man‚ who wished he had pursued an education‚ and although his wife did not approve of his own personal beliefs and doings‚ both his son and his daughters were highly intrigued by him. When he wasn’t out on the sea fishing he would be in his room
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The Fat Black Woman Composes a Poem In order to understand the underlying messages that Grace Nichols was trying to send out through her writing‚ one must understand the context of “The fat black woman composes a poem” as well as the context of the entire book. The first and strongest context is racial context in the form of post-colonial racism in the United Kingdom (where she was residing at the time). Throughout the book‚ Nichols shows what it was like to be a minority at the time and how she
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story is more complex than many. Lula is a thirty-year old white woman that stereotypes males of the African American race and criticizes the African American culture. In "Dutchman"‚ Lula stereotypes Clay‚ a twenty-year old man who is a representative of the form of assimilation practiced by many African Americans‚ a pursuit of white values and culture. Lula is able to observe and stereotype Clay due to his predictable bourgeois‚ or "white"‚ ways. Lula observes his well educated speech- intellectual
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Both Maya Angelou in Phenomenal Woman and Rosie Bourget in Being a Strong Black Woman both explore different aspects of what it takes to be a woman in society today. Maya Angelou uses repetition in the last stanza when writing‚ “Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman‚ That’s me.” She emphasises how proud she is to be a remarkable and extraordinary woman‚ a woman who can do all things if she sets her mind to it. This technique engraves the words in the readers mind causing them to begin to think and feel
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