ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Feminist Literary Criticism, Edwidge Danticat, Hills Like White Elephants
23 Apr 2016
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Lecture 9 new york day women , girl , & a primer for the punctuation of heart. Born in haiti, grew up in u. s. Gained fame and exposure through oprah"s book club. New york day women (1996) by edwidge danticat. Day woman: a woman who looks after people"s children and/or does housework during the day. Suzette doesn"t even know what her mother does. Suzette has flashbacks about advice that her mother gives her throughout the years (in black writing: example of story structure. Her mother doesn"t want to embarrass suzette: ex: she doesn"t attend parent-teacher meetings so that her daughter isn"t stereotyped for being poor. She stores old clothes for people in haiti but they"ve been storing clothes for 20 years: people who grow up poor tend to hoard things in fear that they will need them one day. Her mother has secrets (ex: eating a frankfurt) Suzette has never really known her mother.
