| Subject: Final Paper Proposal |
Author:
Azuka Nzegwu
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Date Posted: 19:00:33 05/05/01 Sat
Who has the right to tell the story/experience of a particular ethnic/racial group? Does the writer have to be a member of that group in order for him/her to write about it? If not, how representative will his/her story be? As readers, how do we come to understand these stories from the perspectives of these writers? How authentic will that story be if written by someone from a different racial/ethnic background, class, or gender? Will their writing be an accurate representation of the experiences of the people from that particular group? Can it ever be?
These are some of the issues I would like to examine in my final paper. The main text for this analysis is "Spinning into Butter," which will act as the framework for this critic. With Gilman, the analysis will focus around her background, as a White-Jewish woman. Almost at times, it seems that the character of Sara Daniels (oppressor) was used to embody a group of people, African-Americans (oppressed) who were and still are victims of their oppressor and racism. I would also like to include Yusef Komunyakaa's, "Re-Creating the Scene." For Yusef Komunyakaa's poem, I will focus on his gender as a black male author and his attempt to re-create the scene of the Vietnamese woman who was gang raped. How accurate will such story be especially that Yusef is a man, and that it is him (meaning male) that had victimized this woman? How successful has these two writers conveyed that experience.
Last, I will use my poem, "Childhood" a poem about a young woman who was raped. I will look at the structure of the poem, the content, language, structure of the poem. I will then discuss the poem's intention, and what it set out to convey and how successful it was at it. I could use my first scene instead in which I placed a mother and a daughter in a conversation and the mother's remembrance of her daughter's rape.
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