Oscar wilde prison writings6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Wilde also remained politically steadfast, determined that his writings should inspire improvements to Victorian England’s grotesque regimes of punishment. As Frankel shows, Wilde experienced prison conditions designed to break even the toughest spirit, and yet his writings from this period display an imaginative and verbal brilliance left largely intact. In The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel collects these and other prison writings, accompanied by historical illustrations and his rich facing-page annotations. Behind bars and in the period immediately after his release, Wilde wrote two of his most powerful works-the long autobiographical letter De Profundis and an expansive best-selling poem, The Ballad of Reading Gaol. As cries of “shame” emanated from the gallery, the convicted aesthete was roundly silenced.īut he did not remain so. ![]() The lord in question, High Court justice Sir Alfred Wills, sent Wilde to the cells, sentenced to two years in prison with hard labor for the crime of “gross indecency” with other men. ![]() “And I? May I say nothing, my lord?” With these words, Oscar Wilde’s courtroom trials came to a close. ![]()
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A Different Blue by Amy Harmon6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() The romantic plot is carried along without feeling contrived because Harmon is a master (mistress?) of romantic tension, so this book satisfies that need in her readers, but Harmon’s strength is the believability of her characters’ emotional development. ![]() So Amy Harmon’s A Different Blue ends where it should romantically, but Blue Echohawk’s journey to love escapes the simplistic clichés that make men roll their eyes or women sigh with smug satisfaction before returning to the real world where men are all jerks. It would feel a betrayal of the reader’s commitment to the journey through the book if the romantic leads did not end up together. 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O nce upon a time, in the middle decades of the war-torn 20th century, there lived an Australian-born British theosophist and mystic, a respectable English woman hiding behind a man’s name, a gay and depressive Finnish Swede who lived half her life on a tiny island, and the firebrand daughter of a respectable Swedish farmer. ![]() Zami a new spelling6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() restaurant (70)), what resonates most loudly is the ways that her relationship with her mother and subsequent other female relationships inform her identity formation. As Zami, Lorde has recreated “in words the women who helped give me substance” (Lorde 255).Īlthough Lorde examines numerous facets of her identity formation, including racism (she is spit on for being black (17) the family’s landlord hangs himself because he has to take in black tenants (59) the family is not served in a segregated Washington, D.C. Taken together, these women foster within Lorde the cohesive self. ![]() Her mother, however, is the emotional center of this memoir, the derivation and impetus for the patterns of connection and exploration that Zami encounters through the central female figures of her identity formation. ![]() This term is derives from her parents place of origin: the West Indies. Zami is “a Carricacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers” (Lorde 255). ![]() With viscerally sensuous language and articulate self-reflexivity, Lorde takes readers on a journey through her childhood and early adulthood, demonstrating how she comes to realize her true name. How does a black lesbian woman negotiate a cohesive self? In what ways do race, sexual identity, and gender intersect and render a human being who is liberated by the very things that oppress her? Audre Lorde explores these themes in her self described “biomythography” Zami. ![]() |