Postmodernism Analysis

One person’s interpretation of a story is always different than another’s. Some of us may see things that are not being shown to us. Dead Poets Society, in author Tania Modleski’s eyes has taken on a manifestation larger than the author herself. This story is not what the author will have you believe, whereas the true story was hidden in the misconception of Modleski’s beliefs. The sexual content, homoerotic tensions, and antiauthoritarian behavior, seemed to come from the author’s wishful thinking as opposed to the reality of the film.

In society, it is most common for a mother to teach her daughter about being a woman, but sometimes the mother is very stuck in societal norms that she hinders her daughter growth; Arimah portrays the dynamics of an estranged mother-daughter relationships through the relationship Ogechi has with her mother.

In the article titled "A Post-Postmodernist Manifiesto or (Pee-Pee modern)" it talks about Art Chantry, an artist going to graphic design school. He begins the article about his instructor talking about how "design is language" and about how graphic designers view certain things that non graphic designers ignore, such as appreciating a straight line and using certain colors to portray the right message.

Jamaica Kincaid was a celebrated Antiguan- American novelist, gardener and essayist, but the basic role of she is girl. In her early age, she had a very complicated relationship with her mother. The story “girl” is ostensibly a series of instructions from her mom gives to her. Like every mothers’ no breathe nagging in the real world. She tells her daughter about cleaning, cooking, behaving like a lady and how to on getting a man, etc. Unluckily, her daughter is not an active listener. She interrupted to her mother twice to ask her mother some question in order to defend herself. Retrospect from ancient times to the modern world, we can see too many mothers and daughters conflict and misunderstanding is far too common. The main reason that causes this situation is the mother usually believe herself is the only person who can control her daughter’s life. It affects everything from her daughter’s health and self esteem.

In Amy tan’s short story called Two Kinds, there are many examples of conflict. These include; Chinese versus American culture, a parent’s wishes versus her child’s wants, and the pursuit of material success versus contentment. However, this essay will only address the conflict between the story’s mother and her daughter’s personalities. Theirs is a struggle with old-world pride against new age independence.name the characters. But the author takes pains to show their good qualities as well, so the story redeems these two characters in the end.

Literary modernism was a reaction against realism which was developed to depict real rural life (Campbell, 2017). As people begun to relocate to city areas many writers and artist took to redefining the meaning of a realistic life. It was believed that one way of life no longer fit for everyone and modernism introduced literature and art that began to question and show various perspectives of life. Peter Childs explains that “modernist writing “plunges” the reader into confusing and difficult mental landscape which cannot be immediately understood…” (Childs 15). Uncommon poetry and prose stemmed from this modernist development. A popular one being Nella Larsen’s Passing, which encompasses two African American women who are particularly

Jamaica Kincaid’s powerful short story ‘Girl’ is a mother daughter dispute. The mother lists several tips trying to give advice and counsel her daughter. The way the mother expresses her advice I would not consider as motherly, but more as if she was a social critic. I visualize the mother as a representation of the damage that society can do to a person’s mind.

In the novel Annie John, by Jamaica Kincaid, Annie’s life with her mother is full of surprises. Annie’s relationship with her mother is very dynamic and changes throughout different parts of the story. In the beginning of the novel, Annie talks about her relationship with her mother as comforting, loving and caring. In the middle of the novel, she goes through puberty and becomes a rebellious teenager much like the stereotypical daughter. And in the end, she leaves her home town Antigua, and sails to England, distancing herself from her mother by over 1000 miles. Throughout the story, Annie and her mother have ongoing cycles of admirations and heartaches which is prevalent to the mother and daughter roles throughout society.

However, there was an opportunity for the attachment process to occur after with the grandfather as a male figure, it continued to be disrupted. With the support of her mother’s extended family and with Mrs. Shayan at work and dealing with Sheils’s one-year-old sister, Sheila was able to have some rational and emotional attachment figures. Mrs. Shayan was unable to provide the complex attunement that Sheila needed to enable her to experience herself as fully loveable and worthwhile. She wasn’t able to process her world as a reliable, and

The characterization of the female roles in the text is used to assert that the narrator not only possesses a compliant behavior toward her father, but also engages in defiant acts to analyze the similarities between her and her speculated aunt. In the piece, Kingston describes how the aunt was oppressed by social obligations of being a woman, where as

The grandmother lives in a patriarchal society, where women are greatly restricted in terms of privileges, dress, and freedom. In the text, the grandmother wears typical attire for Muslim women which includes a long black dress and thick stocking (Al-Shaykh, p. 1728-1729). The grandmother is also aware of many cultural values of women in her society, as she tells her daughter what would happen to them if they were to get caught (Al-Shaykh, p. 1730). Fear and anxiety overtook the grandmother during the trip, in going against cultural norms; however, the grandmother was willing to suffer for the happiness of her granddaughter. The change in her cultural experience occurs when she reaches the pool with her granddaughter. She noticed that women did not cover their hair, legs, or arms, and did not all wear summer dresses. She became traumatized and began to pray (Al-Shaykh, p. 1733). The grandmother from “The Women’s Swimming Pool” is not the only character from these stories that does not exhibit cultural changes. Chike from “Chike’s School Days” also became aware of his cultural background but does not change his

Jamaica Kincaid’s text provides an uncomfortable, one sided discussion between mother and daughter. Portraying the grand rules that a mother sets up for her daughter, which she must obey in order to be accepted in the society. A narrative that connects womanhood in a way a woman must portray herself to the world.

Nancy, Grandmother, and Jennie are three female characters that are key figures into the development of the short stories which they fall in. In O’Conner’s “ A Good Man is Hard to Find,” Bontemps’s “ A Summer Tragedy,” and Faulkner’s “That Evening Sun” these three characters are known to be inattentive, fearful, and weary.

He is keeping her locked up under his sister’s watchful eye. The narrator cannot sleep at night for dreaming of ways to get out. Each time her husband comes she attempts to have a “real earnest reasonable talk with him” asking if she would be allowed to go alone to visit relatives. Each time he refuses, which results in her crying hysterically. The narrator seems to be under the spell of the patriarchal norms of her time. She is having an inner struggle with the idea that men are naturally superior to woman. For example she may believe that men are smarter, more dominant, or more logical. The narrator has her own opinions about what is wrong with her and what she believes to be the best ways to improve her conditions, but as a woman transposed by the patriarchal norms of her time, she ignores her own ideas in favor of the ideas of her

However, the author elaborately narrates the anguish of women about their appropriate roles in the post-war period via religious and societal approaches. Although the religion embraces the mother’s abandonment of family, the author proposes a decent woman by borrowing the perspectives of the two boys and also by proposing the adverse character, Granny, who is submissive and cares her family.