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43.13129 Self-Discovery Within "Desert of the Heart".
The character of Evelyn Hall undergoes an awakening of her sexuality and her sense of identity through beginning a love affair with a casino worker named Ann Childs. This paper discusses this awakening of the self within the character of Evelyn Hall and how the conditions for self- discovery were present throughout the novel. 3-pages, bibliography lists 1 source.
Pages: 3
Bibliography: 1 source(s) listed
Filename: 13129 Desert of Heart.doc
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44.13130 Jane Rule's, "Desert of the Heart".
Jane Rule's book, "Desert of the Heart", written in 1986, represents one of the finest and best appreciated works of lesbian literature. It is the story of a woman, Evelyn Hall, who escapes from a controlling and unhappy marriage to a mentally ill man by going to Reno, Nevada for a divorce. While there, Evelyn meets Ann Child, a woman fifteen years younger than herself, who is free spirited and a comfortable lesbian who absolutely refuses to hold in any of the powerful emotions that are rising within her. The two women slowly become lovers which complicates and eases the tensions around her looming court date. Evelyn and Ann look to each other to find answers as to how long their relationship can last and how they can find themselves together when not in the strange world of divorces and altered realities of Reno. The central theme of the book is one common to most self-exploratory literature - that of self-discovery. The point of the novel is to demonstrate the struggle that Evelyn must experience in order to find her true self. Just as Jesus could not have become a martyr without Judas' betrayal, Evelyn could not become herself, her true lesbian self, without first being betrayed by marriage and heterosexuality. It is the purpose of this paper to examine this theme and its elements as they appear in the novel, Desert of the Heart. 3-pages, bibliography lists 1 source.
Pages: 3
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Filename: 13130 Jane Rules Desert.doc
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45.17842 Reconsidering Gender and Ethnic Identity in Asian American Film and Literature.
This essay looks at the issues of gender and ethnic identity in two films and one novel, Double Happiness, The Wedding Banquet, and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. These works provide the framework from which a reconsideration of ethnic and gender identity can take place. In these works, this reconsideration of identity centers on balancing old structures of identity with new experience and searching for a potential empowerment and confluence in the balancing the formation of a new identity.
Pages: 12
Bibliography: 8 source(s) listed
Filename: 17842 Reconsidering Gender Ethnic.doc
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46.18369 Feminist Immigrant Identity in The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston.
This paper will discuss the book The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston, and seek to analyze the feminist aspects of Chinese immigrants in America. In this analysis, the struggles of Kingston's characters seek identity in a foreign place.
Pages: 2
Bibliography: 1 source(s) listed
Filename: 18369 Feminist Warrior Maxine.doc
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47.18439 Artists Who Love Too Much: Frida Kahlo and George Sand.
Describes how Sand and Kahlo both used their experiences of pain and love in their art, and how their desire to equal the men in their fields expressed itself in uniquely liberating ways.
Pages: 4
Bibliography: 4 source(s) listed
Filename: 18439 Artists Frida George.doc
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48.204 Fathers and Sons in Literature.
In literature, fathers were seldom portrayed as real people capable of making major contributions to their children's development. Only when there was paternal absence, neglect, abuse, or other overtly negative dynamics was father's influence likely to be stand out. We will see that Barn Burning is actually the story of an initiation that will lead to the boy's final refusal to help and support his father. By denouncing this one, Sarty will claim his own individuality and will gain his independence and freedom. The opposition of sharecropper (Mr. Snopes) and aristocrat (Mr. de Spain) suggests social implications. Several elements refer to this possibility. The father points out that de Spain's house is built with "nigger sweat" as well as the white sweat of the sharecropper. He seems to view himself as a victim of an unfair socio-economic system: he "burns with a ravening and jealous rage."(P.169), he is the "element of fire", the narrator speaks to "some deep mainspring" of Mr. Snopes being "as the element of steel or powder spoke to other men, as one weapon for the preservation of integrity ...used with discretion."
