Along with this, the role of Mestiza rhetoric in relation to the factors of success will be elucidated. What is Mestiza rhetoric? Mestiza rhetoric is a term used to describe a duality of identities which exist within a text. The term Mestizo is most common in Latin America, and is used to describe people of mixed European and Amerindian (indigenous) origin. Gloria Anzaldua, author of Toward a Mestiza Rhetoric, articulates that the Mestizo women not only “sustain contradictions, she turns the ambivalence into something else.” Damián Baca, contributor to On the Rhetoric, elaborates on Anzaldua’s “something else”, stating the rhetoric “creates a symbolic space beyond the mere coming together of two halves.” The “something else,” and the “two halves” Anzaldua and Baca refer to, is a situated indigenous national Mexican identity,
C/C 2008 - Compare the emergence of nation-states in nineteenth-century Latin America with the emergence of nation-states in ONE of the following regions in the twentieth century. • Sub-Saharan Africa • The Middle East CCOT 2007 - Analyze continuities and changes in nationalist ideology and practice in ONE of the following regions from the First World War to the present: • Middle East • Southeast Asia • Sub-Saharan Africa C/C 2007 - Compare the historical processes of empire building in the Spanish maritime empire during the period from 1450 through 1800 with the historical processes of empire building in ONE of the following land-based empires. • The Ottoman Empire OR • The Russian Empire CCOT 2006 - Analyze continuities and changes in the cultural and political life of ONE of the following societies. • Chinese, 100 CE to 600
Comparison Between The Book of Negroes and The Color Purple The Book of Negroes is a novel about a woman named Aminata Diallo and her journey to freedom. She is brought to America via the slave trade and uses her midwifery, reading and writing skills to help cope with her situation and gain freedom. The story is told from the point of view of Aminata Diallo in her later years. She looks back at her journey to freedom and the people whom she loved and lost along the way. The book deals with various themes such as discrimination, separation, slavery, oppression and survival.
Analyzing the Writings of Phillis Wheatley and De Crevecoeur In “On Being Brought From Africa to America,” by Phillis Wheatley and in “Letters III” (What is an American) by De Crevecoeur the ideas regarding ,the dream of a better life, freedom, and faith in human goodness are similar. Within their writings they resonate the notions of trying to obtain a vision, “On Being Brought From Africa to America”, she reveals her freedom as a slave while “Letters III”, speaks of the freedom of new Americans. Phillis Wheatley's poem itself declares her dream of a better life, as well as in the descriptions De Crevecoeur makes with his letter. Within both we can see their strength of faith that they have for God and a new beginning. We all dream of a better life, which keeps us moving as human beings.
The American Dream of upward mobility, of “rags to riches,” is an idea that echoes throughout our history and reverberates through the novel Ragtime. Ragtime, written by E. L. Doctorow chronicles the story of a family living in America at the turn of the twentieth century. The novel blends reality and fiction as real-life historical figures receive prominent roles in the narrative, as Doctorow integrates the figures’ true identities with their character counterparts’. We will focus on two such historical figure-characters: Emma Goldman and Evelyn Nesbit. Their stories illustrate how gender and class both define the American Dream and affect the possibility of achieving it.
She donated her correspondence with America’s great black cultural figures to Harlem’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Maya Angelou is the unequivocal example of a graceful woman. Her words throughout the years have uplifted women, spoke of courage for families and moved the nation as a whole. She has published literature for the masses there is something to motivate anybody that is anyone. Angelou created easy outlets for people in struggle.
Poe’s Genre Crossing: From Domesticity to Detection BONITA RHOADS cholarship of the past forty years has repeatedly demonstrated that domesticity emerged as a pervasive cultural ideology in nineteenthcentury America, promoting the feminized household as a spiritual retreat from the instrumental relations of the marketplace. “Domesticity constitutes an alternative to, and escape from, the masculine economic order,” Gillian Brown contended in 1990, recapitulating the groundbreaking studies published in the 1970s and 1980s.1 But despite all its manifest resistance to capitalism, domestic ideology and the popular fiction associated with it have also been prominently linked to consumerism. In her classic 1977 book, The Feminization of American Culture, Ann Douglas leveled a notoriously harsh indictment against domestic ideology as the origin of mass culture. More recently, in Sentimental Materialism, Lori Merish has reexamined Douglas’s argument, offering a more even-handed consideration of the conflicted orientations and complex intellectual history by which domesticity contested the market while nevertheless supplying a crucial logic for consumerism.2 Such internal contradictions have caused a number of critics to conclude that domestic ideology was too aligned with the public sphere to maintain its credibility as a moral counterpoint to industrial society. “A persistent and fundamental paradox of American domesticity,” in Kathleen McHugh’s words, is that “[while] it was constructed ideologically from the beginning as a resistant discourse to market capitalism its resistance functioned conservatively, as an accommodation with or amelioration of threatening market forces rather than a direct contestation of them.” Yet, according to Mary P. Ryan, domesticity’s concessions to commercial culture were not static but progressive.
Evolution of African American Community; Characterization in “Everyday Use” In Alice Walker’s short story “Everyday Use” characters and items are used to symbolize the progression of the African American families and their culture. The symbolism in the story is portrayed through the lives of the three main characters. Through these characters is seen a progression of the African American culture in society. The items that the characters hold dear represent the heritage they are trying to leave behind but still want to remember in the future. Walker uses the women to creatively display the evolution of African Americans in society.
As a woman she dealt with unequal treatment in both. The difficult experiences lent power and depth to her work. At the same time, her complicated identity has obscured her place in American culture. Her sonnet reflects on her beliefs that freedom is here in America! She states, “A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame is imprisoned lightening, and her name Mother of Exiles.” (499) What she is trying to convey here is that Lady Liberty is here to symbolize the freedom
American Individualism in “The Portrait of a Lady” - empowerment or oppression? Henry James is a modern writer from the nineteenth century whose work has inspired and still inspires readers all over the world to follow one’s destiny and remain true to one’s beliefs even when the consequences may not be as positive as expected. He develops a great interest concerning the journey of the independent Americans to Europe, mainly because this journey is no stranger to him and he chooses to write about it, thus creating a novel that seems to be realistic but on a higher level. “The Portrait of a Lady”, published in 1881, as it is mentioned above, it explores the situation of Americans in Europe from the perspective of Isabel Archer, a young orphan American girl, who gets to feel the cultural differences between the two continents when she is introduced to the life-style of the citizens of Europe who acted mostly in the name of their cultural values. The title itself seems to treat Isabel as a work of art, because her character is charming and beautiful, capturing other’s attention, pretty much how a work of art should be, and it also draws the attention upon the artist and the object of his art, of which Alden Turner wrote: “Henry James creates a haunted portrait of Isabel Archer herself wherein he confronts the problem of establishing some meaningful relationship between art and life…Through the developing consciousness of Isabel Archer, James suggests that the idea of a “picture made real” depends upon a meaningful correspondence between the mind of the artist and the reality which confronts him or her.” Throughout the book, we are witnesses of Isabel’s transformation, because the book is written in such a manner that the thing that matters the most is to actually focus on her character and how she appears in relation to other characters , and not on