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Lecture 1- Stories: a core demand? Saturday, February 8, 2014 2:42 PM Stories: a core demand? Children constantly ask to be read stories The need for narrative may not be as core as. Three parts Minority Literature Minority literature The concept of minority has been central to the very founding of American life and government Metaphors of minorities Invisibility : lock of recognition Notion of otherness: radical difference WEB Dubois, the souls of Black Folk (1903) Historian and writer First African American to receive PhD from Harvard Two primary ideas :The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line." Double consciousness Double consciousness "It is peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, …show more content…

"Perhaps I was thinking about my brother and in them I heard my brother. And myself" (104) The two share jokes. On India(11) Shows the intimacy only have with brothers. Both brothers have pain. Narrator sees limits abound him; the death of his daughter--the fall of Face. Sonny tries to explain similarities: "But nobody just takes it, that's what I'm telling you! Everybody tries not to. You're just hung up on the way some people try-- it's not your way!" (123-33) Three Generations and Women Sonny's father, mother, uncle Sonny, narrator, Isabel The school boys and the narrator's children We assume things from one generation to the next get better. The narrator questions this assumption over and over again (11). A deep fear of what will happen to his children Women as grounding forces Isabel, the mother The social context This particular story gains power and resonance in its social context: the limited life in Harlem The irony is that just couple miles down the island, it is one of the richest place in the world Baldwin makes this immediately clear on the second page of the story. "These boy… all those other sounds: (104) Three main issues emerge in this passage: darkness, generation, whistling. Darkness- aimless, blue Whistling- tie to whistling adults do in club The nature of darkness Narrator's memory of

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