Tucker,Lindsey . "Alice Walker's The Color Purple: Emergent Woman, Emergent Text ." Black American Literature Forum 22.1 (1988): 81-95. Depaul Umiversity Chicago,IL. May 5, 2009 http://www.jstor.com/.
Alice Walker, aware of black women as a particularly muted group, has addressed herself in much of her work to the problem of the black woman as a creator. "You'd better not never tell nobody but God. It'd kil your mammy" These words, uttered by the presumed farther who is also the rapist of his daughter and who has twice impregnated her, astablish not only the primacy of a male text, but also convey the essence of patriarchal repression-a silencing of the young Celie that leaves no recourse but communication with a transcendent white male diety. Celie needs to be able to name in order to establish selfhood.Quilting in particular operates as a rich metaphor for Walker because it involves the making of a useful object form material which is customarily regarded as worthlelss: scraps and throwaways. needlework is also the means by which Nettie uncovers the proof of Celie's maternity. Having become intrgued by the quilting of the Olinka, the children's adoptive mother decides to begin a quilt, and in hunting for scraps for it Nettie comes upon the material that Corrine had purchased when Celie and the adoptive years before.
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Hamilton,cynthia . "Alice Walker's Politics or the Politics of The Color Purple" Journal of Black Studies vol. 18.3(1988): 379-391. Depaul Umiversity Chicago,IL. May 18, 2009 http://www.jstor.com/.
in this atmosphere it is safe to return to the Moynihan thesis; it is safe for white American to exonerate the black matriarchy and for lack men to denounce it; safe to look at dereriorating black family life and proclaim its cause as the historcally mounting antagonism between black men and women. only though individual initiative, she implies, can the solutions be found: women must find their solutions outside the home and motherhood, in enterprise, entertainment, and education.All of these writers miss theirs is not the vision of a new society,
but rather the old society in black and now female face. in fact that may be the very issue that ought to be addressed. it is the voice of the victim, particularly the victim of rape. the resulting degradation has manifested itself in particular socioeconomic conditions for blacks and more specifically to a set of stereotypes to explain and characterize black women.in attempting to break away from these stereotypes to find their own historial subject, black women writers have explored the idea of women as victims, of their own anger and frustration, of genderlessness in a world dominated by gender roles. some may argue that Walker has not used stereotypes but rather "metephors" to point out irony in what others see as "the progress of the group." yet another irony in the treatment of the female characters in the book concerns "motherhood."
Monday, May 4, 2009
Sunday, May 3, 2009
precis 3 & 4
#3
ON THE COLOR PURPLE, STEREOTYPES AND SILENCE
The tale of the novel's popularity is the tale of the media' ability, once again, to dictate the tastes of the reading public, and to attemkpt to shape what is acceptable creation by black American writers. These readers, who do not identify with the chareacters and who do not feel the intensity of their pain, stand back and view the events of the novel as a cirxus of black human interactions that rivals anything Daniel Patrick Moynihan concocted. The spectator readers show what damage the novel can have; for them, the book reinforces racist stereotypes they may have been heir to and others of which they may have only dreamed. After all, a large number of readers, usually vocal and white, and decided that The Color Purple is the quintessential statement on Afro-American women and a certain kind of black lifestyle in these United States. what matters is cruelty, vilence, keeping the truth from others who need it, suppressing someone's will of talent, taking more that you need from people of nature, and failing to choose for yourself.
Selzer, linda."Race and Domesticity in The Color Purple" African American Review,29.1(1995):67-82 JStor Depaul U. Chicago, may 5th, 2009
#4
Race and Domesticity in The Color Purple
An important jucture in Alice Walker's The Color Purple is reached when Celie first recovers the missing letter from her ling list sister Nettie. This discovery not only signals the introduction of a new narrator to this spistolaru novel but also begins the transformation of Celie from writher to reader. Indeed, critics from vrious aesthetic and political camps have commented on what they perceive as a tension between public and private discourse in the novel. Thus, in analyzing Celie's representation of national indentity...discourages in the novel and concludes that Celie's narrative ultimately emphasizes "individual essence in false opposition to institutional history". Thus, Butler Evans finds that Celie's "private life preempts the exploration of the publiclives of blacks". ...Celie's family oriented point of view and modes of expression can displace race and class analyses to the point that the "nonbiological abstraction of class relations virtually disappears".
Harris , Trudier. "ON THE COLOR PURPLE, STEREOTYPE, AND SILENCE." Black American Literature Forum,18.4(1985): 155-161. JStor Depaul U. Chicago, may 5th, 2009
ON THE COLOR PURPLE, STEREOTYPES AND SILENCE
The tale of the novel's popularity is the tale of the media' ability, once again, to dictate the tastes of the reading public, and to attemkpt to shape what is acceptable creation by black American writers. These readers, who do not identify with the chareacters and who do not feel the intensity of their pain, stand back and view the events of the novel as a cirxus of black human interactions that rivals anything Daniel Patrick Moynihan concocted. The spectator readers show what damage the novel can have; for them, the book reinforces racist stereotypes they may have been heir to and others of which they may have only dreamed. After all, a large number of readers, usually vocal and white, and decided that The Color Purple is the quintessential statement on Afro-American women and a certain kind of black lifestyle in these United States. what matters is cruelty, vilence, keeping the truth from others who need it, suppressing someone's will of talent, taking more that you need from people of nature, and failing to choose for yourself.
Selzer, linda."Race and Domesticity in The Color Purple" African American Review,29.1(1995):67-82 JStor Depaul U. Chicago, may 5th, 2009
#4
Race and Domesticity in The Color Purple
An important jucture in Alice Walker's The Color Purple is reached when Celie first recovers the missing letter from her ling list sister Nettie. This discovery not only signals the introduction of a new narrator to this spistolaru novel but also begins the transformation of Celie from writher to reader. Indeed, critics from vrious aesthetic and political camps have commented on what they perceive as a tension between public and private discourse in the novel. Thus, in analyzing Celie's representation of national indentity...discourages in the novel and concludes that Celie's narrative ultimately emphasizes "individual essence in false opposition to institutional history". Thus, Butler Evans finds that Celie's "private life preempts the exploration of the publiclives of blacks". ...Celie's family oriented point of view and modes of expression can displace race and class analyses to the point that the "nonbiological abstraction of class relations virtually disappears".
Harris , Trudier. "ON THE COLOR PURPLE, STEREOTYPE, AND SILENCE." Black American Literature Forum,18.4(1985): 155-161. JStor Depaul U. Chicago, may 5th, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
precis 2
Hamilton, Cynthina. "Alice Walker's Politics or the Politics of The Color Purple." Jornal of Black Studies 18 (Mar., 1988): 379-391. JStor.Depaul University, IL.www.jstor.org
in this context we can begin to see clearly Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize winning novel that takes us back into the black psyche, a return visit to the cultral poverty, where families passon the pathologies of life to succissive generations. In this atmosphere it is safe to return to the Moynihan thesis; it is safe for white American to exonerate the black matriachy and for black men to denounce it; safe to look at deteriorating black family life and proclaim its cause as the historically mounting antagonism betewwn black men and women.
Like Susan Brownmiller in the 1960's she explains rape in terms of men; she explains black women's oppression as a result of patriarchy, and the answer to the problem of exploitation is the successfful embracing of middleclass ethics that allow for the fulfillment of the American dream; home ownership and entrepreneurship. Only through individual initiative, she implies, can the solutions be found: women must fing their solutions outside the home and motherhood, in enterprise, entertainment, and education.
There is no doubt that many experiences of the characters in The Color Purple are real for many readers and moviegoers. In fact, that may be the very issue that ought to be addressed. The facts of life today allow us to identify completely with a lonely, isolated, alienated young woman, a woman left without a family because of the meanness of the significant men in her life- stepfather, father, husband.
in this context we can begin to see clearly Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize winning novel that takes us back into the black psyche, a return visit to the cultral poverty, where families passon the pathologies of life to succissive generations. In this atmosphere it is safe to return to the Moynihan thesis; it is safe for white American to exonerate the black matriachy and for black men to denounce it; safe to look at deteriorating black family life and proclaim its cause as the historically mounting antagonism betewwn black men and women.
Like Susan Brownmiller in the 1960's she explains rape in terms of men; she explains black women's oppression as a result of patriarchy, and the answer to the problem of exploitation is the successfful embracing of middleclass ethics that allow for the fulfillment of the American dream; home ownership and entrepreneurship. Only through individual initiative, she implies, can the solutions be found: women must fing their solutions outside the home and motherhood, in enterprise, entertainment, and education.
There is no doubt that many experiences of the characters in The Color Purple are real for many readers and moviegoers. In fact, that may be the very issue that ought to be addressed. The facts of life today allow us to identify completely with a lonely, isolated, alienated young woman, a woman left without a family because of the meanness of the significant men in her life- stepfather, father, husband.
Monday, April 27, 2009
precis
http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy2.lib.depaul.edu/stable/2931568?&Search=yes&term=purple&term=color&term=movie&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3D%2528the%2Bcolor%2Bpurple%2529%2Bmovie%26gw%3Djtx%26prq%3D%2528the%2Bcolor%2Bpurple%2529%26hp%3D25%26wc%3Don&item=1&ttl=839&returnArticleService=showArticle
Shifting Through The Controversy: Reading The Color Purple
Both works (book and film) present a negative portrait, proclaim some critics, of black men in particular and the black family in general. The primary difference in the critisim of the contemporary film is that the outrage over the works is not unamimous. Black women and black men, for the most part, are split, and at times, at odds over the effect of the works on the condition of black people in this country. The narure of the debate over The Color Purple and the way it affected how the public received the film and produced a reading of it are the subjects of this investigation. The film reached an audience in several stages and each time induced a strong reaction. When The Color Purple is referred to as controversial the inference is that the content of the work is incendiary rather than that the reaction to it has been negative.
marriage was produced is relevant for this assessment of the film The Color Purple in that the 1920s film and the 1980s film were both caught up in "power relations" between several disxoures, at a particular historical moment, "over the conditions under which the film was to enter the public domain." The black woman's discourage, as spoken by the black women, has been less publicized than have the other two untill recently. The broader debate over The Color Purple is about the authority of black women writhers to set the agenda for imagemaking in fiction and film.
http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy2.lib.depaul.edu/stable/2931568?&Search=yes&term=purple&term=color&term=movie&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3D%2528the%2Bcolor%2Bpurple%2529%2Bmovie%26gw%3Djtx%26prq%3D%2528the%2Bcolor%2Bpurple%2529%26hp%3D25%26wc%3Don&item=1&ttl=839&returnArticleService=showArticle
Shifting Through The Controversy: Reading The Color Purple
Both works (book and film) present a negative portrait, proclaim some critics, of black men in particular and the black family in general. The primary difference in the critisim of the contemporary film is that the outrage over the works is not unamimous. Black women and black men, for the most part, are split, and at times, at odds over the effect of the works on the condition of black people in this country. The narure of the debate over The Color Purple and the way it affected how the public received the film and produced a reading of it are the subjects of this investigation. The film reached an audience in several stages and each time induced a strong reaction. When The Color Purple is referred to as controversial the inference is that the content of the work is incendiary rather than that the reaction to it has been negative.
marriage was produced is relevant for this assessment of the film The Color Purple in that the 1920s film and the 1980s film were both caught up in "power relations" between several disxoures, at a particular historical moment, "over the conditions under which the film was to enter the public domain." The black woman's discourage, as spoken by the black women, has been less publicized than have the other two untill recently. The broader debate over The Color Purple is about the authority of black women writhers to set the agenda for imagemaking in fiction and film.
Monday, March 23, 2009
TONE: gwendolyn brooks "beverly hills, chicago"
i saw him.
standing with the next chick
smiling
warm embracing
holding hands
and kissing.
i saw him.
peaking out the wholes of my broken heart
silent sustained soul is currently torn apart
but...
i glue a smile on my face to appear content
fairy tail once upon a time trying to forget
i saw it.
placed upon her finger
should buy you a present
because her belly's getting bigger...
standing with the next chick
smiling
warm embracing
holding hands
and kissing.
i saw him.
peaking out the wholes of my broken heart
silent sustained soul is currently torn apart
but...
i glue a smile on my face to appear content
fairy tail once upon a time trying to forget
i saw it.
placed upon her finger
should buy you a present
because her belly's getting bigger...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
the dealth penalty
The death penalty, is usually issued to those who have killed. Some think that the punishment is hypocritical, but isn’t this whole nation based as a hypocrisy? What ever happened to “Every man should be created equal”? however, if everyman should be created equal then they should be killed just the same. The bible says “thou shall not kill” but the Qur’an states the thou can not kill an unarmed man. Wasn’t this man once armed? Though to some my logic's seems unreasonable, but the dead can’t fight for them selves. What ever happened to Hammurabi’s code , and “an eye for an eye” because this criminal does deserve a punishment. Some say that “two wrongs don’t make a right” but it does make things even.
To some, I might seem close minded and some what selfish about the situation at hand, but so was the criminal when they decided to take the life of another civilian. No one sees death coming, but some one or thing needs to punish this man/woman who tries to act as if their God by taking the lives of others. People can't choose when the lives of others can be ended. however if the person who committed the crime feels as if they can, then they shall die as well.
my farther has been shot eleven time and the person that shot him is still not incarcerated, even though my farther didn't die, does he still deserve to be punished. Yes, and if the person has the nerve to inflict pain on some one then they are no greater than the victim. as a christian i know that forgiving is the right thing to do, so it sparing a life. but did they do the right thing? no i am not saying that the world should be corrupt, however if my belief was a law there will be less crime, well at least murder. i also agree with the Qur'an that you shouldn't kill an unarmed man, due to the simple fact that the outcome of who was suppose to die might change and the victim has an equal opportunity.
To some, I might seem close minded and some what selfish about the situation at hand, but so was the criminal when they decided to take the life of another civilian. No one sees death coming, but some one or thing needs to punish this man/woman who tries to act as if their God by taking the lives of others. People can't choose when the lives of others can be ended. however if the person who committed the crime feels as if they can, then they shall die as well.
my farther has been shot eleven time and the person that shot him is still not incarcerated, even though my farther didn't die, does he still deserve to be punished. Yes, and if the person has the nerve to inflict pain on some one then they are no greater than the victim. as a christian i know that forgiving is the right thing to do, so it sparing a life. but did they do the right thing? no i am not saying that the world should be corrupt, however if my belief was a law there will be less crime, well at least murder. i also agree with the Qur'an that you shouldn't kill an unarmed man, due to the simple fact that the outcome of who was suppose to die might change and the victim has an equal opportunity.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
edited ....
I believe that the opinions that these authors express are some what valid. however there not 100 percent accurate. One author in particular, Eric W. Carlson states that "Poe's philosophy, aesthetics, and epistemology in the tales and poems are often difficult to comprehend." which is some what true, however the Arthur is stating this as if he didn't understand it at all. He states that Poe "stretches words and phrases well beyond their denotative and usual metaphoric meanings" but as an creative author isn't that whats wanted or even needed so that readers can not only dig for what the Aurthur really meant, and then dig even further for what they interpreted from the text. i believe that Poe wasn't trying to be difficult, but entertaining by making you think what does he mean by this statement? why does he use this word?Not to make things more complex but flexible, to the authors mind and the readers. If all works of literature were only created for the simple minded how would the art of figurative language be expressed? It would be better if he said that Poe's philosophy, aesthetics, and epistemology in the tales and poems are often difficult to comprehend to some. Due to Poe's style in stretching his words and phrases well beyond their denotative meaning.Another author believes that the story is a rewrite of a biblical story like Coleridge. But if Poe's was hard to comprehend how did you realize that? Is Coleridge on the same complex as Poe? If there concepts are similar, that still doesn't justify the authors creativity as an artist. As an individual. Maybe Edgar Allan Poe intentionally left out the the initial reason for his imprisonment. So that the reason can be inferred by the reader. Even though the two authors had a similar style, it still doesn't justify that they are similar artists. They could of said it was similar not a rewrite. By saying rewrite that's taking a toll for the whole entire literary work. Yes there concept was the same, but to what extent?
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