Tracey Lindberg’s novel Birdie is narratively constructed in a contorting and poetic manner yet illustrates the seriousness of violence experience by Indigenous females. The novel is about a young Cree woman Bernice Meetoos (Birdie) recalling her devasting past and visionary journey to places she has lived and the search for home and family. Lindberg captures Bernice’s internal therapeutic journey to recover from childhood traumas of incest, sexual abuse, and social dysfunctions. She also presents Bernice’s self-determination to achieve a standard of good health and well-being. The narrative presents Bernice for the most part lying in bed and reflecting on her dark life in the form of dreams.
Throughout history, there have been many literary studies that focused on the culture and traditions of Native Americans. Native writers have worked painstakingly on tribal histories, and their works have made us realize that we have not learned the full story of the Native American tribes. Deborah Miranda has written a collective tribal memoir, “Bad Indians”, drawing on ancestral memory that revealed aspects of an indigenous worldview and contributed to update our understanding of the mission system, settler colonialism and histories of American Indians about how they underwent cruel violence and exploitation. Her memoir successfully addressed past grievances of colonialism and also recognized and honored indigenous knowledge and identity.
Monkey Beach is an adaptation of “Queen of the North,” both written by Eden Robinson. The texts both touch on the theme of intergenerational trauma within Indigenous communities. Through the lens of different main characters, however, Monkey Beach approaches the topic differently through its portrayal of the transmission of trauma. In “Queen of the North,” the transmission of intergenerational trauma is most clearly seen through Josh reenacting trauma onto Adelaine. In contrast, as a novel, Monkey Beach offers a more nuanced depiction of the methods of intergenerational trauma transmission, such as the loss of Lisamarie's cultural identity.
A man followed the girls in his car, leering at them until they made it home. All of the girls were scared, even if they showed it in different ways. Cheryl called the police but they took hours to arrive. The only response the police had was to Cheryl’s qualms was to no longer allow the girls to go the store unaccompanied (Vermette, 2016, p. 165-169). This incident not only speaks to the hypersexualizing of young indigenous women, but also the lack of concern of the local law enforcement.
I picked the Three Sisters because it was really cool how three volcanoes were right by each other. The Three sisters is a complex volcano, its made up of stratovolcanoes and shield volcanoes. All of the volcanoes are in Oregon. The Three Sisters got their name because there are three of them by each other.
The theme dehumanization can be seen in different types of forms for example novel, poetry, art, etc. I will be using the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, poetry, The Rear-Guard and I will be using a painting, Bathers with a Turtle that was painted by Matisse in 1907. The dehumanizing art is mostly used to trigger familiar emotions and feelings, and this is really the abiding subject of the viewer’s delight. This art is used as a narcotic way that allows us to enjoy what we are most familiar with, our own emotions.
The novel The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants is written by Ann Brashares. This book is 290 pages about a group of four girls, the September, Lena, Tibby, Carmen and Bridget. The Septembers were all born within sixteen days of each other and have an unbreakable bond of friendship. In the novel the idea of friendship is big, it shows that anything can bring friends closer even if they are thousands of miles apart from each other. The story start out with Carmen, Carmen bought a pair of jeans at a thrift store simply for the reason that annoyed Lena’s mom to shop at thrift stores.
In the reading from We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century, Dorothy Sterling explores the many experiences of mainly African American women during the period of the Reconstruction era. Sterling states “whites put aside random acts of violence in favor of organized terror.” She focuses a lot on those experiences that involves the Ku Klux Klan (who were the organization responsible for these organized terror) and in a way, it seems fair because they were the main perpetrators of hate crimes against the African American community. The first few examples provided in the reading offer accounts of African American women whose husbands are often targets of the Ku Klux Klan because they were politicians or high-profile radicals in the South.
Sometimes things aren’t always what they seem to be. Things that you associate with always being happy could be trapped by what society expects it to be. “The individual soul is in conflict with the collective one.” (Voigt) In Ellen Bryant Voigt’s, “Effort at Speech”, the persona tries to tie human interactions and characteristics into the animals seen at the aquarium and the way they live within the tank.
“Everyday Use” short story by Alice Walker is a story about two sisters with their interactions, differences and comparisons. The two sisters are named Maggie and Dee. They have been through alot together. One comparison/ difference about them is their level of education. Maggie has a difficulty seeing.
Native Americans in Canadian society are constantly fighting an uphill battle. After having their identity taken away in Residential Schools. The backlash of the Residential Schools haunts them today with Native American people struggling in today 's society. Native Americans make up five percent of the Canadian population, yet nearly a quarter of the murder victims. The haunting memories of Residential Schools haunt many Native Americans to this day.
Nancy Hewitt wrote an article about the role of sisterhood in women’s history. She specifically focused on the sense of community formed by the common oppression in North America, from the Victorian Middle class all the way to the inclusion of Unions in the American Industrial Age. However, Hewitt summarized feelings where women would “other” other women, by focusing on each other’s racial and economic differences. Firstly, women would “other” each other based on race, usually with white women being the superior group and non-white women being the non-superior group.
To exhibit that allegory in the painting is an extremely valuable media to build awareness among individuals; artists have utilized symbolism and allegory since the beginning of time (Barney 1979). This has been chiefly in light of the fact that symbols are ordinarily used to embody or allude to a scholarly idea, rather than a literal meaning, promoting a far reaching understanding of the implied thoughts. As the human mind disentangles allegories in painting, it discovers intends to relate the human's own thoughts with the painting that are utilized—this is the place the issue of awareness sets in. People's introductory response originates from the essential information about the painting, and in addition if individuals require significant
For Cheryl, she embraces her Metis culture and heritage. “‘I wish we were whole Indians’” (40). Throughout her time at school, Cheryl reads history books about Metis people and historical figures such as Louis Riel. She would also passionately write on what she thinks about the Metis people. At university, she writes a piece which points about the crucial effects white people have brought along in North America.
Art has a grandiose capacity to incite emotion. This philosophy has generally been labeled “The Arousal Theory” which breaks down the ability of art to provoke an emotional response. There have been other versions of the theory such as the “The Expression Theory” which states that art evokes the emotions the artist felt while creating the piece. No matter the theory, however, the consensus that art can facilitate emotions goes unchallenged (Citation). However, occasionally art does not stop there.
