it is a selection of Elizabeth Berg's most-loved fb posts. She used to be requested via many to place those brief essays into booklet shape, to create, as one reader acknowledged, anything to "take to the seashore, or mattress, or on an airplane." Elizabeth and her buddy, the book's fashion designer Phyllis Florin, fortunately complied, and so they desire that their supplying can be as welcome as vegetation in a mailbox.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Sonstiges, be aware: 1,3, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), Veranstaltung: SE - instructing American pop culture, Sprache: Deutsch, summary: within the motion picture "Caged", imprisonment is strongly characterised via corporal punishment, surveillance and (bodily) subjection. hence, this paper will speak about within which methods and to what volume the feminine prisoner's physique is subjected to disciplinary modes of motion and methods in "Caged" and the way they're relating to the workout of energy and keep watch over in the punitive equipment.

Based in this thesis, i'm going to talk about 3 major questions: How does the movie's narrative (re)produce perceptions of lady delinquency? within which methods imposes legal coercion upon and keep an eye on over the feminine physique? How, why and to what volume does the punitive gear make ‘use’ of the feminine delinquent’s physique in "Caged"?

In the 1st a part of this paper i'll discuss with narrative moments, motifs and style conventions shared by means of the women-in-prison melodramas, supply a quick precis of "Caged" and talk about the cinematic creation, illustration and copy of woman delinquency within the movie by means of mentioning 3 significant and influential readings of "Caged" in the learn discourse.

The moment bankruptcy will concentrate on Michel Foucault's idea of delinquency, as a part of his cultural-anthropological research "Discipline and Punish: The delivery of the Prison", seek advice from dressage and self-discipline as disciplinary ‘techniques’ and convey how commentary, surveillance and regulate over the feminine physique are enforce during the disciplinary gaze.

Finally, the 3rd half will take care of the best way criminal establishes a clutch at the lady physique, exhibit how the punitive gear thereby creates docile our bodies via education of habit or paintings and at last finish via discussing to which volume corporal punishment is used to accentuate prison’s claims to workout energy and keep an eye on over the feminine delinquent’s physique in "Caged".

From the instant J. D. Salinger released The Catcher within the Rye in 1951, he used to be stalked via besotted fanatics, would-be biographers, and pushy reporters. during this number of infrequent and revealing encounters with the elusive literary big, Salinger discusses—sometimes willingly, occasionally grudgingly—what that onslaught used to be like, the autobiographical origins of his paintings, and his suggestion to writers. together with his ultimate, astounding interview, and with an insightful advent via New York Times journalist David Streitfeld, those enlightening, provocative, or even fun conversations exhibit a author fiercely immune to the highlight yet powerless to flee its glare.

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Thesis (M.A.) from the 12 months 2006 within the topic American experiences - Literature, grade: 1,0, college of Dusseldorf "Heinrich Heine", 113 entries within the bibliography, language: English, summary: In a retrospective, black musical types skilled a quick stylistic improvement and an expanding attractiveness among a large viewers of artists and kids susceptible to American tradition throughout the Nineteen Forties, ‘50s, and ‘60s.

One of the main influential and critical between those musical varieties used to be jazz song. Writers started to use it on their very own paintings in manifold methods. From a retrospective, the influence of this convergence of jazz and literature, that's now mostly known as ‘jazz literature’, was once often structural or thematic (and occasionally even both), and might quickly conceal an exceptional number of diverse literary genres.
The current thesis goals to spot a few of the ways that writers utilized their studies with jazz song to their writings. It covers assorted literary genres and authors, corresponding to John Clellon Holmes, Amiri Baraka, Jack Kerouac, and James Baldwin.

Champions of Civil and Human Rights in South Carolina is a five-volume anthology spanning the a long time from 1930 to 1980 with oral heritage interviews of key activists and leaders of the civil rights move in South Carolina. Editor Marvin Ira Lare introduces multiple hundred civil rights leaders from South Carolina who inform their very own tales of their personal phrases to bare and chronicle an immense revolution in American society in a deeply own and gripping approach. This formidable undertaking of the collage of South Carolina’s Institute for Public provider and coverage learn was once funded partially by way of the South Carolina Bar origin, the Southern Bell company, and South Carolina Humanities.

The 5 volumes function a collective memoir that includes unique oral heritage interviews with major figures within the civil rights flow of the Palmetto kingdom, a survey of archived interviews, numerous released and unpublished narratives, and illuminating black-and-white pictures. each web page opens doorways to new ancient proof and to new insights in regards to the humans, locations, and occasions of the civil and human rights fight in South Carolina.

Volume 1, sunrise of the circulate period, 1955–1967, starts with the landmark 1954 perfect courtroom ruling on Brown v. Board of schooling within which the courtroom declared unconstitutional kingdom legislation developing racially segregated public colleges. The ruling triggered robust reactions during the country. In South Carolina white resistance caused boycotts of retailers by way of the neighborhood NAACP and a few of the earliest mass stream protests within the usa. This assortment beneficial properties oral histories from well-known leaders U.S. Congressman James E. Clyburn, Septima Poinsette Clark, and that i. DeQuincy Newman, in addition to small-town voters, pastors, and scholars, all sharing their stories, motivations, hopes and fears, and the way they see the fight today.

"He back tops the crowd--he surpasses himself, the outdated iron delivered to the white warmth of simplicity." that is what Robert Lowell acknowledged of the poetry of Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006) and his evolving artistry. The interviews and conversations contained during this quantity derive from 4 many years of Kunitz's uncommon occupation. They contact on aesthetic motifs in his poetry, the roots of his paintings, his friendships within the sister arts of portray and sculpture, his interactions with Lowell and Theodore Roethke, and his reviews on a bunch of poets: John Keats, Walt Whitman, Randall Jarrell, Wallace Stevens, and Anna Akhmatova.

Kunitz emerged from a mid-sized business city in vital Massachusetts, surviving kinfolk tragedy and a feeling of private isolation and loneliness, to turn into an eloquent spokesman for poetry and for the ability of the human mind's eye. Kunitz has commented, "If we wish to recognize what it felt prefer to be alive at any given second within the lengthy odyssey of the race, it's to poetry we needs to turn." His personal odyssey from "metaphysical loneliness" to a feeling of group with fellow writers and artists--by development associations like Poets condominium and the nice Arts paintings middle in Provincetown, Massachusetts--is ever found in those interviews.

Durham and Orange Counties have shiny and lively African American groups. through the region’s unjust prior, generations have proven awesome power and unravel. Floyd McKissick grew to become the 1st African American scholar on the college of North Carolina institution of legislations after Thurgood Marshall argued for his admittance in courtroom. The fight for civil rights in Durham formed the poetry of Jaki Shelton eco-friendly, one of many state’s such a lot esteemed wordsmiths. extra lately, neighborhood leaders reminiscent of Michelle Johnson locate the paintings of equality is much from over. Journalist and author Jean Bolduc finds the voices of Durham and Orange County African american citizens in a sequence of inspirational oral histories.

El Paso’s African American group can hint its origins again to the sixteenth century, while the black Moor often called Esteban roamed the southwest and, extra considerably, these Africans within the occasion of conquistador Juan de Oñate crossed the Rio Grande in 1598. the fashionable El Paso African American neighborhood started to take form within the Eighties, because the railroad undefined, army institution, and agricultural group all had black americans of their ranks. Black leaders and their fans verified a college and based numerous major black church buildings. Texas's first kingdom department of the nationwide organization for the development of coloured humans is recorded to were shaped in El Paso; the 1st significant complaints that challenged the all-white Democratic basic got here from this urban; the Texas Western university basketball crew gained the NCAA championship in 1966 with 5 beginning black gamers; and this day, town is inhabited via black army retirees, marketers, educators, and different pros (each with shiny and socially wide awake organizations), making it a innovative version of group development.

Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2001 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Literatur, observe: 1,0, Universität zu Köln, 104 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, summary: Fünfzig Jahre lang, von der Publikation 1899 bis 1956, ist von The Awakening in Literaturwissenschaft, Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik kaum Notiz genommen worden. Eine irrationale Protagonistin, die bis in den Tod auf ihrer Identität insistiert, dabei scheinbar nicht auf die "menschliche Herde" angewiesen ist und darüber dennoch nicht hysterisch oder psychotisch wird, stand ebenso im Widerspruch zum naturalisierenden viktorianischen Diskurs über Weiblichkeit, wie die fiktionale Erkundung des Komplexes Kultur, Sexualität und Tod Illusionen zu demontieren drohte, die als gesellschaftliches Fundament fungierten und bis heute fungieren. Dass diese konterdiskursive Infragestellung kulturerhaltender Ordnungsphantasmen zu einer massiven Verdrängung des Textes - nicht zuletzt unter dem Signum der Kulturversagung - geführt hat, überrascht kaum. Der Tenor zeitgenössischer Rezensionen bezeugt eine signifikante Ablehnung:"[...] it leaves one ill of human nature" (Awakening: 163), "its unpleasant glimpses of sensuality are repellent" (Awakening: 166), "gilded airborne dirt and dust" (Awakening: 167), "an primarily vulgar tale" (Awakening: 168), "unhealthily introspective and morbid in feeling" (Awakening: 170), "unwholesome in its impact" (Awakening: 172).
Es handelt sich dabei um viel mehr als nur um "vestiges of Victorian prudery" (Walker 1993: 141). Eine derart vehemente, mehr moralisch als ästhetisch begründete Ablehnung lässt vermuten, dass der Roman an neuralgische Punkte der Kultur wie auch der menschlichen Identität rührt. Es geht um Fragen, die nicht gestellt werden dürfen. Dass Nietzsche und Freud sich mit ähnlichen Reaktionen konfrontiert sahen, ist ebenso wenig ein Zufall wie die Tatsache, dass ihre Gedanken sehr produktiv für die Interpretation des Textes genutzt werden können. Welche diskursiven Praktiken im Blick auf Kanonbildung und Zensur wurden aktiviert, um das subversive énoncé des Textes zu verdrängen?