If I were to extend this further, I would want to look more at America’s history of commodifying or racializing black people for the nation’s agenda. When reading about this what I thought about most was the commodification of popular black artists, specifically in the […]
Category: Applications
Application 5 Part 1
Mya Hankes Literary Theory and Criticism Professor Frank Nov 11, 2022 Application #5 For this application it was asked to examine Venus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France, and how the commodification of Sarah Baartmann was used for the inflation of French […]
Application #4
Mya Hankes Literary Theory Professor Frank November 1st 2022 Application #4 For this application, I will be examining Commodity Lesbianism by Danae Clark and how female consumerism leaves out lesbians due to the heternormative nature of advertising itself. Clark presents the argument that consumer culture […]
Application #3
This application will be covering the analysis of the short story “The Lady in the Looking Glass: A Reflection” By Virginia Woolf, and the article “Solid Objects/Ghosts of Chairs: Virginia Woolf and the Afterlife on Things” by Graham Fraser. In Frasers article, he looks at […]
Application #2
For this application assignment, it was assigned to analyze “Retrospective Prophecies: Legal Narrative Constructions”, a chapter by Peter Brooks in the book “New Directions in Law and Literature” edited by Bernadette Meyler and Elizabeth S. Ankler and present the argument made by Brooks in regard […]
Application #1
In this journal, “The Well Wrought Urn”, Cleanth Brooks, analyzes “Ode to a Grecian Urn” and the complexity of the statement “beauty is truth, truth beauty”. The central idea being presented in Brooks’ argument is whether or not Keats was able to highlight the relationship […]
