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A Crowded Intersection of Race and Gender: The Impossibility of an Anti-Racist Perspective in Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and the 2017 Hulu series.
6 May, 2024 The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood is a seminal feminist novel depicting an ustopia– a word Atwood coined “by combining utopia and dystopia – the imagined perfect society and its opposite – because, in my view, each contains a latent version of the other” (according to “Margaret Atwood: the Road to Ustopia”)–… →
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“We Were Never Meant to Survive”: How the Ghost of Slavery Haunts Audre Lorde and the Black Community in the United States
6 November, 2023 “We Were Never Meant to Survive”: How the Ghost of Slavery Haunts Audre Lorde and the Black Community in the United States After the successes of the 1960s civil rights movement, Black people in the United States were forced to navigate the new post-segregation world in which there was an institutionalized semblance… →
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A Certain Slant of Emily: Paradoxical Oppression in Dickinson’s Poem 320
Emily Semaya Emily Dickinson’s 320th published poem, colloquially titled “There’s a certain Slant of light,” in reference to the first line, explores feelings of deep heaviness and despair through the use of comparisons and metaphors. The poem is arranged in quatrains, with each stanza following an ABCB rhyme scheme, save for the final one which… →
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