490 Final Presentation

The Matriarchal Lineage of Native American Feminism

Native American woman were already what we would consider feminist. In that feminism, they were actually living out  a more patriarchal Christian system than the patriarchal Christians.

1.Men are to lay down their lives for their brides and Christ did for the church. (Warrior)
2.Women are to support and love and obey their husbands. (Stability)

Sources
There is No Word for Feminism in My Language by Laura Tohe
-matirarchal lineage

Native American Literature: Expanding the Canon by Mona Kratzert and Debora Richey
- ???

How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies by Robert Dale Parker
-defining feminism

Thresholds of Difference: Feminist Critique, Native Women's Writings, Postcolonial Theory by Julia V. Emberley
-bringing feminism to Native American culture

Native Americans of the Northwest Coast by Veda Boyd Jones
-tribes and roots

The Gale Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes by Sharon Malinowski
-tribes and roots then and now

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
-women's role
-perspective of Christians

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
-combining worlds

Smoke Signals directed by Chris Eyre screenplay by Sherman Alexie
-women's role reevaluated
-perspective of Christians
-man as warrior

Fallsapart.com Sherman Alexie's official web page.
-content
-changing perspective

Natalie Kusz

Born 1962

M.A. and M.F.A. from UAF

L.A. to Alaska at 7

Sled dog accident

Mother by 16

Mother by 19

Ill father at 29

Father by 32

Bethel College, Harvard University, and EWU

O, Harper's, Threepenny Review, McCall's, Real Simple, and The New York Times

Intro to Poetry EWU fall of '11

Oprah-How One Woman Learned to Love Being Fat

Road Song by Natalie Kusz

The author of this memoir has suffered so much in her 27 years that writing about it involved a risk. "Road Song" could have been a saccharine tract about the triumph of the human spirit or such a painful tale that even reading it would hurt. Instead it's a calm, reflective affirmation of family love.

21st Century Woman Writers

Nadine Gordimer
-20 November 1923
-Springs, Gauteng, South Africa
-The conservationist
-Banned July’s People



Ursula Le Guin
-October 21, 1929
-Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
-Berkeley, California
-Sci-Fi Fantasy


Alice Munro
-Alice Ann Laidlaw
-10 July 1931
-Wingham, Ontario, Canada
-Short Stories- White Dump


A.S. Byatt
-Dame Antonia Susan Duffy
-Antonia Susan Drabble
-Drabble – Byatt -- Duffy
-24 August 1936
-Sheffield, England, UK
-"I don't believe that human beings are basically good, so I think all utopian movements are doomed to fail, but I am interested in them."


Joyce carol Oates
-16 June 1938
-Lockport, New York
->50 novels + volumes of short stories, poetry and non fiction


Caryl Churchill
-3 September 1938
-London, England
-Non-naturalistic dramatist


Margaret Atwood
-Margaret Eleanor Atwood
-November 18, 1939
-Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
-The Handmaid’s Tale
-Full time schooling in 8th grade


Maxine Hong Kingston
-Maxine Ting Ting Hong
-April 27, 1940
-Stockton, California
-The Woman Warrior
-U of California, Berkley
-3rd of 8, oldest of 6


Bharati Mukherjee
-July 27, 1940
-Calcutta, West Bengal, India
-Jasmine
-U of California, Berkley


Leslie Marmon Silko
-March 5, 1948
-Laguna Pueblo tribe
-Albuquerque, New Mexico
-Ceremony


Jamaica Kincaid
-May 25, 1949
-Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson
-St. John's, Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda.


Joy Harjo
-Tulsa, Oklahoma
-May 9, 1951
-Muscogee (Creek) Nation, and Cherokee descent
-Poetic Justic [Alto Saxophone]
-Poetry, children’s books, musician


Rita Dove
-Rita Frances Dove
-28 August 1952
-Akron, Ohio
-Thomas and Beulah
-Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress



Louise Erdrich
-Karen Louise Erdrich
-Little Falls, Minnesota
-born June 7, 1954
-Love Medicine
-Birchbark Books


Jeanettte Winterson
-27 August 1959
-Manchester, England
-Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
-Adopted at one year, sermons by 6 and lesbian by 16
-“What you risk reveals what you value.”

Julia Alvarez

HER website:
http://www.juliaalvarez.com/

BORN in the U.S. March 27th, 1950

Dominican Republic from 3 months-10 years

Father became part of the underground

Flee Reign of Trujillo in 1960 [4 months-Mirabal sisters]

"When I'm asked what made me into a writer, I point to the watershed experience of coming to this country. Not understanding the language, I had to pay close attention to each word -- great training for a writer. I also discovered the welcoming world of the imagination and books. There, I sunk my new roots. Of course, autobiographies are written afterwards. Talk to my tías in the D.R. and they'll tell you I was making up stuff way before I ever set foot in the United States of America. (And getting punished for it, too. Lying, they called it back then.) But they're right. As a kid, I loved stories, hearing them, telling them. Since ours was an oral culture, stories were not written down. It took coming to this country for reading and writing to become allied in my mind with storytelling."

In the Time of the Butterflies [1994]

Paria- Eldest religious zealot

Dede- The survivor and only non-participant

Minerva- Headstrong lawyer

Maria Teresa- Youngest and materialistic

FULL MOVIE AVAILABLE ON HULU HERE:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/34568/in-the-time-of-the-butterflies

Early Women Writers [18th century]

Anne Bradstreet- 1612-1672
-Never intended to publish her work
-Published by brother without her consent
-Focus on faith and husband, then children

Mary Rowlandson- 1637-1711
-Captivity narrative
-America's first "bestseller"  with four printings
-Many similar fiction works based on a similar plot

Phillis Wheatley- 1753-1784
-First African American poet
-Taught and encouraged by her owners
-Christian center or dedications- thankful for slavery
-Married freed grocer and died in poverty

Lady Mary Wortley Motagu- 1689-1762
-Wrote a political periodical called the Nonsense of Common-Sense
-Often critical letters to sister or love letters
-Poems of independent woman nature

 Franny Burney- 1752-1840
-4 novels, 8 plays, 1 biography, 20 volumes of journals/ letters
-Novels on English aristocrats and satirize social pretensions
-1 play performed and closed after first night

Mary Wollstonecraft- 1759-1797 
-Arora Leigh reflects Mary's focus on education.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning read The Rights of Woman at age 12.