Katie Sterry December 4, 2012 ANTY 435: Book Review Introduction Many scholars have devoted their life’s work to studying drug use in various cultures. Two such scholars are ethnographic authors Catherine J. Allen and Philippe Bourgois. These two individuals each spent several years living in extremely different communities to study the lives and practices of their inhabitants. Allen performed her fieldwork in the Andean community of Sonqo and published her book, “The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community,” in 2002. Bourgois chose to inhabit New York City’s impoverished East Harlem, also called “El Barrio,” for several years and in 2003 published his book, “In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio.” While both Allen and Bourgois lived in their respective communities in the late 1980s, the settings of their fieldwork allowed them to produce two very different bodies of work.
There are also other voices, including that of their son (also called José Luis), as well as through newspaper articles, diary entries from the past, and poems. Martinez gives us a chance to really get a closer look into the bigger picture of the story because we get to here it from so many different voices. That being said, we can also see that the novel contains four main characters and three 1st person narrators. Maria, who is the principal narrator, is nineteen years old (as previously stated)
Currently she resides in New York and is a professor of visual arts at Columbia University. Her signature artwork consists of cut-paper silhouettes. She uses this technique because she sees it as being cartoonist, which in turn allows her to elaborate on racial stereotypes that are reductions of humans. She went to school for drawing and printmaking, but in through her years she has used almost every media possible. She has dabbled in painting, written text, light projection, and video as well as performance.
She states: My childhood Southside summers were the ordinary city kind, full of the street games which other rememberers have turned into the fine ballets these days and rhymes that anticipated what some people insist on calling modern poetry… (Hansberry 457) Throughout the story she explains how her summers were spent. She tells different stories of what she did and where she went. Both Anaya and Hansberry relate their childhood to their stories. Thus, making the tone being reminiscent. As well as both stories sharing a common tone, they also share a common style.
Benjamin is also an African American born in Birmingham, he is an English writer and dub poet. This poem is written with Maya Angelou herself as the speaker. She is speaking to her audience of oppressors about how she has overcome racism, criticism, sexism, and personal obstacles in her life with pride and grace. This poem is historically rooted with the mentions of slavery, a “past of pain,” and “gifts of ancestors,” however she is speaking in the present having overcome all of the hardships of her past and embarking on the rest of her journey with the knowledge that she is a strong African American woman. Still I Rise is about overcoming oppression with grace and pride having no sympathy for the oppressors and giving validity to the reasons for oppression.
Why or why not? When Cofer ends by quoting one of her poems, she ends it in a very effective way. This is for several reasons, one being the relationship to god. She states that it is a poem “for respect” and that she wants to achieve “universal respect” (207). When she connects her words to god she is creating a connection to god which not only appeals to the audience but also uses allusion to create tone to her text.
The Question of Identity - 3. The Question of Meaning/Purpose - 4. The Question of Morality - 5. The Question of Destiny – The Question of origin is best explained in the book of Genesis as God created the world and every living and non-living thing that cohabitate upon it. God created the heavens and the earth as stated in the first chapter, first verse of the book of Genesis, found in the Old Testament.
And so if poetry is the way to express understanding of a love affair, then perhaps myth in religion is best seen as an expression of the truth of faith to the believer, written from the perspective of faith. But, it seems reasonable to
How does Auden use language to create effect ? Throughout the poem Auden uses a variety of different techniques and ideas to really make a impact. However for me one of the main ways of doing it in this poem was through the use of the language he chose. The poem in set around the late 1930 and is a interpretation of how the Jewish people viewed the country they were living in. One main key effect of the language for me was the repetition of the sentence in the last line of each stanza.
Coursework: I’m Al Filreis and welcome to ‘Poem Talk’ at The Writer’s House. We have the pleasure of convening 3 eminent friends in the world of poetry to collaborate on a close reading of the poem ‘Tulips’ by Sylvia Plath. We hope to engage some new readers and listeners because ‘Poem Talk’ podcasts are also available as part of our ‘Pensound Archive’ at writing.upen.edu/pensound. Today, I’m joined here at Penn-state University in the Kelly Writers House in our Wexler Studio by Tracy smith, educator, and poet whose 2011 collection ‘Life On Mars’ won the Pulitzer Prize that year; incidentally the same prize won by Sylvia Plath herself in 1982. Ericka Wagner; author, critic and former literary editor of The Times, who recently published a biography of Ted Huges; the British poet and ex-poet laureate who married Sylvia Plath.