My Papas Waltz
Theodore Roethke
The Enormous Radio
John Cheever
A Good Man is Hard to Find
Flannery O'Connor
A View from the Bridge
Arthur Miller
Howl
Ginsberg
The Vanishing American Hobo
Kerouac
Sonny's Blues
Baldwin
A Party Down at the Square
Ralph Ellison
Letter From Birmingham Jail
MLK JR
In the Field
Tim O'Brien
Where are you going...
Joyce Carol Oats
Diving into the Wreck
Adrienne Rich
The Master's Tools
Audre Lorde
Borderlands/Frontera
Gloria Anzaldua
And the Earth Did Not Devour Him
Tomas Rivera
Los Vendidos
Luis Valdez
Recitatif
Toni Morrison
Dwellings
Linda Hogan
Touching the Earth
Bell Hooks
The Comforting Whirlwind
Bill Mckibben
Post Modernism
Postmodern literature is a form of literature which is marked, both stylistically and ideologically, by a reliance on such literary conventions as fragmentation, paradox, unreliable narrators, often unrealistic and downright impossible plots, games, parod
Multiculturalism
Themes and characters from countries around the world
A book that represents this is:
-The Master's Tools
-Boderlands/Frontera
Cold War
In the 1920s, science fiction and pulp fiction became popular
Book that represents this:
Hipster (1950)
Jazz music, different races
Culture of Domesticity
The role within the home and the dynamics of work and family for women
-Where are you going...
-Diving into the Wreck
-The Master's Tools
Southern Gothic
Groteque themes- damages, or delusional characters
-A Party Down at the Square
American Civil Rights Movement
Ending segregation, mLK JR
-Letter from Birmingham Jail
-A Party Down at the Square
American Anti War Movement
Vietnam- americans did not want to participate in the war
-A View from the bridge
Nuclear Age (red scare)
Extracinitals crisis at any moment (Fear of being nuked at any second by the russians)
-A View from the Bridge
Beat movement
Started by a group of authors who explored and influence American culture and politics in the WW2 area. It explored spiritual quest, exploration of aMERICAN and Eastern religions, rejection of materials, drugs, sexual liberation, exploration, etc.
-Howl
Patriarchy
A system of society or government in which the father or eldest male is head of the family and descent is traced through the male line
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Negative peace/positive peace
Negative is the absence of violence (ceasefire). Positive peace is when people are acting non-violently and are able to manage their conflict
Teatro Campesino
United Farm Workers with support from Chavez
Goes along with Luis Valdez
Vietnam war
racism
chicano art
Essentialism
The belief or presumption that people, cultures or literature each possess an 'essence', that is, a core, defining and unchanging quality or set of qualities. For instance, women of all cultures and classes are frequently held to be essentially nurturing.
Crisis in Masculinity
Males question their masculinity
The Vainishing American Hobo
Literary Motif
Any recurring element that has symbolic significance in the story
Feminist Criticism
Criticism by a feminist theory, or the politics of feminism. It critiques the language of literature
Feminism
Girl power
Theodore Roethke
Victory culture and economic class in Waltz
Papa's Waltz is about economic class, He has beat knuckles because he is hard at work but he also takes care of his family by spending time with his son. Victory culture because ??
Arthur Miller
Legal justice vs social/communal justice in A View From the Bridge
-Eddie calls immigration of Rodolpho because he is jealous he is liked by his niece.
John Cheever
Instability of Modern Marriage (modern suburbia) in the Enormous Radio
Their marriage seems perfect to the outside, but the wife is so bored that she has to eavesdrop on other neighbors to be happy. She starts to dislike her marriage and change as a perso
James Baldwin
In Sonny's Blues, familial love and responsibility is present. The older brother has lost his daughter, and realizes he needs to be present in his drug addict brother's life before he loses him too. He is responsible for rekindling their relationship, and
Jack Kerouac
Personal freedom and social responsibility in The Vanishing American Hobo
-he doesnt have to be like a regular person, he can be a hobo and do whatever he wants?
-social responsibility no longer exists because he has no repurcusions?
Allen Ginsberg
What does the title Howl refer to? Refers to crying, or wailing loudly. Each sentence begins with "who" which sounds like an owl, who howls
Inclusivity- It revolves around a homosexual and drug addict who were scene as crazy back then.
Flannery O' Connor
Southern lady and the good in A good man is hard to find
-she is dressed in her best at all times because if she dies and someone finds her corpse she wants to be seen as a lady
-big on family
-the grandmother would have been a good woman if someone had s
Adrienne Rich
Genderer social expectations and adventure and personal history
Martin L. King
Reasons for civil disobedience
Bill McKibben
Living with simple elegance and witnessing in the comforting whirlwind
-not flashing a lot of money because of jesus i dont know
bELL hooks
Healing the psyche
-connecting earth to african american people. they must reclaim a spiritual legacy where we connect our well-being to the well-being of the earth. they should use ecology to end racism. living close to nature creates a spirit of wonder
Toni Morrison
Race and racism, and maggie in recitatif
-twyla had to share a room with a girl from a different race and felt sick. her mother told her that people of roberta's race never washed their hair and smelled weird. while the black girl's mom is considered sick
Tim O'Brien
Story-telling and memory in "In the field"
Kiowa has died, and they are looking for his body. The story is told in third person by the author. Memory is because they go back in time and think about what they could have done differently to prevent the deat
Linda Hogan
All my relatiations in "restoring the relationship to earth in dwellings
Tomas Rivera
Focus on the following stories: and the earth did not devour him" "with his hands in his pocket" "silvery night" and first and las vignettes
Joyce Carol Oats
Patriarchy and security in Where are you going...
-a beautiful 15 year old girl is at odds with her other, who was once beautiful herself, and her homely older sister. she spends much of her time with boys at a restaurant, unbeknownst to her family. she c
Luis Valdez
stereotypes in the ending- sancho is the robot, eric garcia is just a regular dude who won the money and splits it after ordering a vocal protest
Ralph Ellison
witnessing, the use of the word "americans in the text
Audre Lorde
Turning difference into strength in my masters tools
-was supposed to be about feminist theory as a black lesbian feminist, but the people and turns their hate into strength
Gloria Anzaldua
Dual consciousness in chicane and lesbian activism. wants the majority of western culture to have an interest in those that are oppressed and change their attitudes