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Posted by ZyNaijah Hightower in College English · Giknis · C Band on

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Article 1 : Padron, Melissa. “Gender Theory vs. Pragmatism: A Point of Diversion between Judith Butler’s Gender Performativity and the Psychosocial Limitations of Gender Construction.” Inquiries Journal, Inquiries Journal, 1 Apr. 2021, http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1897/gender-theory-vs-pragmatism-a-point-of-diversion-between-judith-butlers-gender-performativity-and-the-psychosocial-limitations-of-gender-construction.
Annotated Bibliography: For my annotated Bibliography I focused on “Judith Butler’s Gender Performativity” I found it interesting due to her approach to gender. She believes as though gender is socially constructed. She related it to a performance. In the article it states, “Gender is, thus, a construction that regularly conceals its genesis.” (Butler 522) Pushing the idea of if an actor continues a performance and the audience believes the actor will continue the same act. All in all this relates to the book my group and I are reading in class called “The Color Purple.” In the Color Purple gender roles play a huge part in the telling of the story. You see Celie, the main character, struggle with her identity and even her sexuality. In this book men have the upper hand but all the women Celie is surrounded by are strong and resilient which motivates her to want to fight. She is always scared due to the unknown consequence of her disobeying her husband.

Article 2: Heller, Zoë. “How Toxic Is Masculinity?” The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/08/how-toxic-is-masculinity. Annotated Bibliography: I found this article very different from the normal discussions about feminism. This article talked about the reverse effect of the male-female social change. It stated that we have outnumbered men in the work industry; it seems like more women work nowadays. We are starting to see gender change in equality. I relate this to our book because this kind of reminds me of the character Sofia. Sofa is a strong minded independent woman. We are starting to see the effects of Sofas mindset on the current society and it’s actually astonishing the impact that women have in our society.

Article 3: Horowitz, J. M., & Igielnik, R. (2021, June 25). A Century After Women Gained the Right To Vote, Majority of Americans See Work To Do on Gender Equality. Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/07/07/a-century-after-women-gained-the-right-to-vote-majority-of-americans-see-work-to-do-on-gender-equality/

Annotated Bibliography: This article focuses on women having the right to vote after a century. I found this article very interesting because it talks about gender equality between men and women. One of the things they mentioned in the article was that men have been the only gender to vote in the past centuries or so. They believed that women couldn’t be counted on to vote responsibly. Women fought for basically 100 years. They made speeches, signed petitions, and argued continuously that women, just like men, deserved equal rights and the responsibilities of citizenship. This connects to the book The Color Purple in a way because the character Nettie believed women should have the same learning opportunities as men. In Olinka, they believed the opposite. Women were only good for doing chores and other household things. They were not able to be educated because that isn’t a women’s job or what they’re meant to do. Nettie fought hard for the girls in Olinka to be able to learn the same way the boys were learning as well.

Article 4: Littlefield, A. (2022, September 28). How Does Reproductive Justice Win? The New Republic. https://newrepublic.com/article/167399/how-does-reproductive-justice-sex-education-universal-childcare-food-security-win

Annotated Bibliography: This article focuses on the new abortion law that was being more restrictive. There was a group of African American activists that were from a range of reproductive rights and justice organizations that was located in Texas. There was a new restrictive abortion law. This became an issue because there were some organizations where they were sending desperate messages from the frantic Texans. Most of those people were African American and there were plenty of them who weren’t able to afford to travel out of state or even take off from work to get an abortion.

Slaughtercast 5 - Episode 2

Posted by Daniel Medlock in College English · Giknis · C Band on

““Slaughterhouse-Five” at 50.” NPR.org, www.npr.org/2019/07/06/739154414/slaughterhouse-five-at-50.

This article was about reflecting on Slaughterhouse 5 years later and included snippets of an interview with Vonnegut about the book. One of the main focuses of the interview was why it took so long to write the book and other things that aren’t quite as important for what I want to look at, but through it all you can see lots of Vonnegut’s purpose in the way the book is written and why certain choices are made. Vonnegut really wanted the book to be the truth, despite being a work of fiction, about the war, not something glamorized or anything like that. It also gives a bit more context about when the book was written, including the time period of the Vietnam War, which can offer new insight into the writing.

Roston, Tom, and The Writer’s Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five. “What Drafts of Slaughterhouse-Five Say about Kurt Vonnegut.” Time, Time, 11 Nov. 2021, https://time.com/6116467/kurt-vonnegut-slaughterhouse-five-struggles/.

This article is fairly interesting because it goes over Vonnegut’s 23 years worth of manuscripts that never made it to the final product, with approximately 5,000 pages being scrapped by Vonnegut. I think Vonnegut’s mentality towards some of the historical claims he made about the bombing really fits the New Historicist lens well. He says that 135,000 germans died in the bombing, but that number has been discredited for quite some time, with the modern estimate being about 25,000 people. When Vonnegut was confronted about this he asked why is was important, meaning why did it matter how many people died. Which I do agree with in part, the fire bombing of a city is terrible whether 25,000 or 134,000 people died or not. No matter the number it’s still too many. It’s also interesting how the world-historical events around him influenced how he could write, with the start of the Vietnam war and people being generally angry at the war allowing him to decry how poorly Americans had treated germans in World War 2.

Tonguette, Peter, et al. “Reading Kurt Vonnegut While Social Distancing.” The National Endowment for the Humanities, The National Endowment for the Humanities, 29 Apr. 2020, https://www.neh.gov/article/reading-kurt-vonnegut-while-social-distancing.

Kurt Vonnegut’s Novels focus heavily on the connections and interactions between humans, and the world that all of them inhibit. During his life he saw long distant, instant communication get easier and easier, which in his view actually made people less connected. This source goes in depth on one of his books that demonstrates that view the most clearly, but also questions artificial connections to other people like distant familial relations. He talks about lonliness and it relates to his time and his life and its very present in Slaughterhouse-Five.

Remembering Author Kurt Vonnegut, Who Would Have Turned 100 on Friday.” NPR. NPR, November 11, 2022. https://www.npr.org/2022/11/11/1135984054/remembering-author-kurt-vonnegut-who-would-have-turned-100-on-friday.

My article give plenty of insight inside the often difficult to read mind of Vonnegut this especially pertains to slaughterhouse 5 as the article gives insight to his untreated PTSD which we see the main character of slaughterhouse 5 suffer from. This also affects the neo historicist lens as seeing Vonnegut’s backstory and youth helps us understand many of his views, especially those that pertain to war and pacifism. Vonnegut speaks a lot about how the lens of history is shaped by those in power which perfectly encapsulates the neo historict lens.

The Eye of the Beholder Ep.2

Posted by Daija Glover in College English · Giknis · C Band on

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Ryan: Als, Hilton. “Toni Morrison’s Profound and Unrelenting Vision.” The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2020, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/03/toni-morrisons-profound-and-unrelenting-vision

This article is written to eulogize Morrison who has recently passed away but it also gives a recap of her debut novel and does so in a way that shows the feminist perspective. 3rd wave feminism not only cares about the needs of women but acknowledges the privilege that white women enjoyed during the previous two waves this article acknowledges that when stating “Not that she ever looks in a mirror. She knows what she’d find there: judgment of her blackness, her femaleness, the deforming language that has distorted the reflection of her face. ” This quote shows that being a woman was hard during this time but being a black woman was impossible.

Jason: The article shows all the different versions of feminism in the Bluest Eye. “At its core, The Bluest Eye is a story about the oppression of women. The novel’s women not only suffer the horrors of racial oppression, but also the tyranny and violation brought upon them by the men in their lives.” While reading this book, I constantly struggle with picking out facts and details from the writing just because it’s so different from the books I’ve normally read. The article helps me see things that I missed and makes me realize all the different versions of feminism that are present within this book. It’s very insightful and really makes it a lot clearer how women struggle in this book and what they’ve had to go through during their day-to-day lives just to survive.

Daija: Als, Hilton. “Toni Morrison’s Profound and Unrelenting Vision.” The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2020, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/03/toni-morrisons-profound-and-unrelenting-vision.

This article goes over the whole book and gives people a summary of the book and Toni Morrison’s life before the book. In the article talks about the themes of the book like beauty. In the article the talk about Pecola’s relationship with the women upstairs “She loves to listen to these women’s stories because, despite the demands of their work, they are free: free to love whomever and spend their money however they like.” I think this shows more insight into society and how even though these are very nice people and care for Pecola more than her real family does, they are deemed as bad because they are sex workers.

Campbell: Morgan, J. (2021, October 5). How white feminism threw its black counterpart under the bus. The New York Times. Retrieved January 17, 2023, from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/books/review/kyla-schuller-the-trouble-with-white-women-a-counterhistory-of-feminism.html?searchResultPosition=8

This article highlights the lack of intersectionality in feminism that is presented to Black women. The same intersectionality or lack thereof is pointed out by Polly Breedlove when asking for her money but receiving advice instead. “But later on it didn’t seem none too bright for a black woman to leave a black man for a white woman. (120) Like Polly’s boss the white feminists of the past had a blindspot on black women when working on the progression of women which gave a disadvantage to their fight for equality. This is further expanded upon by Kyla Schuller In her book THE TROUBLE WITH WHITE WOMEN.

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