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Creus Blooms At Night

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I have been taking gender and women's studies courses at UBCO since I started and therefore I am no stranger to abstract thoughts in regards to identity. Although I must say, it has not gotten easier for me to answer when I am asked, "what is a woman"? We went over this question in the first few weeks of class and still after four years, I did not have a definite answer and it is because of the politics of location. As I was reading Cereus Blooms at Night I considered the idea of politics of location and what I thought it meant before the textbook told me. I thought of the poetry contest I entered about place. It was open to all UBCO students and the collection is quite beautiful; it gives a look into what place means to an assortment of different people. That being said as I read Cereus Blooms at Night I was not looking for a physical location as much as I was looking for an abstract thought that was sacred to each character. Such as, Chandin's armchair in the …show more content…

I am a white bisexual feminist in a heterosexual common-law marriage working towards my undergraduate degree in sociology. This description is quite loaded and if I were to read it as anyone else's definition than mine I would see this as very elitist, but it is hard to think of myself in that way. Aside from my education, my race and sexuality affect how I can empathize with Sarah and Lavinia separately. Although I am queer like the both of them, I do not truly understand Sarah's struggle with maintaining an educated manner as to not further embarrass Chandin (because he is already embarrassed by her race). Queerness does not give Sarah, Lavinia and myself the same experiences. As a result of that label have a "false unity of 'we'" (Eagleton 217) and community. Lavinia is upper class and religious, Sarah is lower class and racialized and I am lower middle class and am free to be openly

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