so now that im in the blog im gonna catch up on my posts.
the use of description in Bookseller is pretty minimal. but what i most saw was when Seierstad referred to women as burkas. that use of description, and i must add, metonomy, really got the point of women being objects across very well. it was a very clever use of that literary device and furthers her thesis of the book, that women in Afghanistan are treated as objects and are below men in that society. she writes av=bout long burkas, short burkas, fat burkas, skinny burkas, but in spite of all the differences, women are not worth more than a burka in that culture.
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Course Information
Weekly Reading Links
- QE's Speech to the troops at Tilbury
- QE I's "Golden Speech"
- Douglass' "Narrative"
- Milton's AREOPAGITICA
- Paine's Common Sense
- The Declaration of Independence
- Jefferson's Speech on the Burr Conspiracy
- Stanton's Declaration of the Rights of Woman
- Edwards' "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
- The Gettysburg Address
- Lincoln's last public address
- Emerson's "American Scholar" speech
- Emerson's "Divinity School Address"
- Chuchill's "The Price of Greatness is Responsibility"
- Churchill's "On the Death of President Roosevelt"
- Kennedy's 1961 Inaugural Address
- MLK's "I Have a Dream"
- MLK's "I've Been to the Mountaintop"
1 comment:
I love how Seierstad uses burkas to represent repression, but what I love even more is the secret remnants of independence the women hide underneath these burkas -- like the fashionable shoes the women in the bazaar wear underneath their burkas which they use to identify each other. Also, during the Taliban when the beautification of women was actually against the law, women wearing burkas would secretly decorate their faces with elaborate make up underneath their burkas. This whole situation reminds me that burkas are more than just symbols of opression; they are a cloak of secrecy under which the women conceal their desires.
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