North American Women’s Writing
English 223
“Something that has been founded, established, or
implanted, as an institution, a religion, a belief,
etc.”
“An estate or large farm, esp.
in a former British colony, on
which crops such as cotton,
sugar, and tobacco are grown
(formerly with the aid of
slave labour)”
“The settling of people, usually
in a conquered or dominated
country; esp. the planting or
establishing of a colony;
colonization”
“An area planted with trees,
esp. for commercial
purposes”
“The action of planting seeds or
plants in the ground”
“A cultivated bed or cluster of growing plants of any kind”
“It is not enough to have expelled the barbarians who have bloodied our land for two centuries; it is not enough to have restrained those ever-­‐evolving fac:ons that one a;er another mocked the specter of liberty that France dangled before you. We must, with one last act of na:onal authority, forever assure the empire of liberty in the country of our birth; we must take any hope of re-­‐enslaving us away from the inhuman government that for so long kept us in the most humilia:ng torpor. In the end we must live independent or die.” “We hold these truths to be selfevident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among
these are Life, Liberty and the
pursuit of Happiness.”
“Against the ideal of a freedom from power extremes, our
South appears in US literature to embody both sides of the
disavowed binary: simultaneously colonial and colonized,
it diverges from the nation writ large on the basis of its
exploitativeness – as the location of the internal
colonization of Africans and African Americans in the
United States – and on the basis of its exploitation – as the
location of systemic underdevelopment, military defeat,
and occupation […] The South gives writers a backward
glance, a conduit to the American colonial past against
which they may gauge the rise of the independent,
developing republic. As writers posit the South as premodern and undeveloped, though, it comes to serve a
forward-looking function as well, emerging as a domestic
site upon which the racialist, civilizing power of U.S.
continental expansion and empire abroad may be
rehearsed and projected” (3-4)
North American
Women’s
Writing
some things to know about class
2 essays, 1 seen exam
class structure
note-taking
laptops, etc.
PDFs
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