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THE SHORT STORIES, Tillie Olsen, I stand here ironing
NOOOOOO (update…
THE SHORT STORIES
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Anzia Yezierska
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America and I (1923)
- personal story (migration and integration)
- difficulties:
- learning the language
- job = survive
- free work vs get paid
- better job
- spiritual aspiration (place for herself)
PROBLEMS:
- starving for hunger
- stop eating => write
- eating = sort of assimilation
- Hunger = desire to speak
→ her stories: disillusionment on Ame dream
Silko, Lullaby
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theme:
- power
- loss (of her children: Jimmie during war; Danny and Ella, who were taken away from her)
- identity ("life had become memories")
- maternal connections
- language
- engl and/or span = American
- navajo = N.A.
no year → specific event
- 1° flashback: beginning of Vietnam war
- Danny and Ella taken not long after
Herman Melville
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‘Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street (1853)
NARRATOR (=lawyer) + internal focalization (pov)
employees (=Dickensian caricature)
- Turckey
- Nippers
- Ginger Nut
- Bartleby
"i would prefer not to"
- formal and polite → responsibility on the narrator
Human isolation
capitalism
- freedom and slavery
- the self → what is a man?
- geog limits → the frontier
New York
- City Hall
- Wall Street
- the Tombs
- Corner of Canal
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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the yellow Wall-Paper (1890)
- 1° person, present-tense, dramatic monologue
- symbol of the oppression of 19th cent women (their writing)
- situation of middle-class woman
- addressed to a neurologist → change his methods of curing people
- collection of journal (first person)
- importance of writing
Cisneros Mericans
awful grandmother
- la virgen de guadalupe
- la Malinche
- la llorona
(near the) church=space in between
littlle brother → machismo ("Girl" + Lone Ranger)
Merican = Mex + Ame
language = cultural blend
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GLORIA ANZALDUA
Fontera + Mestizaje
- borderland
- nueva raza mestiza
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Tillie Olsen, I stand here ironing
NOOOOOO (update file)
- mother pov (motherhood)
- domestic task (ironing) - think back on Emily’s childhood
- memory → what she would have done differently
- guilt
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Adichie, Apollo
NOOOOOO (update file)