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Subject: Re: Final Paper Proposal

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Prof Yun

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Date Posted: 14:11:42 04/27/01 Fri
In reply to: emel 's message, "Final Paper Proposal" on 14:43:51 04/25/01 Wed

Emel, This is a challenging topic you've proposed. I would suggest, first, that you be careful about the poetry piece you intend to write. Make sure that you yourself are not objectifying (or opposite, glorifying) the very same women in your own poem. This means, the "perspective," "point of view," or "persona" in the poem will be crucial. As you focus on the women in Dien Cai Dau, also remember that there are grey areas. Are the women one-dimensional or are they more complex in the poems and how does that lend (or not) some humanity or multi-dimensionality to them as people rather than as flat characters of oppression? Some thoughts to chew on. Prof Yun

>Final Paper topic:
>Periods of war marginalize men and women and place
>them in gendered roles as feminine and masculine.
>Women are generally portrayed as the weaker sex while
>men are portrayed as the dominant and powerful sex. As
>a result, the sexual abuse of women through rape and
>other means is often a means of sexual conquest. The
>conquest of women is symbolically the conquest of land
>and another's nation. This paper will focus on the
>sexual conquest of women as a means to gain power and
>control as presented in literature. I will focus on
>Komunyaaka's "Dien Cai Dau" and a personal poem
>written from the perspective of an oppressed woman
>during a period of war.

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