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Subject: Re: Just like everyone else...Paper Proposal

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Prof Yun

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Date Posted: 23:27:41 05/04/01 Fri
In reply to: Claudelle 's message, "Just like everyone else...Paper Proposal" on 17:25:38 05/03/01 Thu

Your key interests seem to be related to gender and voice:
"Who has the right to re-create the scene? Is female repression confined to just sexual repression?"

Both are tied together because they relate to power. Who gets to have voice and who is repressed or oppressed? You seem to be implying that your interest here is in examining moments when women are somehow repressed or oppressed. Remember though, there are always gray areas, which is why life and literature become interesting. There are spaces, however small and slight, for resistances.

You can examine works on several levels. One would be the literal meaning, another would be the metaphorical meaning. Does this help you?

>I would just like to say that i am having a little bit
>of difficulty with this paper. Perhaps someone could
>help. I already know that i am doing my poem, which
>you heard today, and selected works from Komunyakaa.
>I am thinking about doing Re-Creating the Scene and
>Tunnels so far. I want to address the questions of:
>Who has the right to re-create the scene? Is female
>repression confined to just sexual repression? Or can
>we see some kind of repression in Tunnels too? then i
>want to tie in my poem, Walk On, as not only a
>repression of some sort, but parallel the rape in
>Re-creating by the three men, to the "rape" in my poem
>by my 3 "men": vision, memories and curiosity. I
>guess i am not sure how to put this all together.
>please help

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