Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (Mouthmark): 10

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Since its inception, English literary studies has been engaged in forming the hegemonic cultural practices in India. For me, Mother’s Day is revisiting the five stages of emotional distress, yearning yet mourning the perfect mother-daughter relationship that never was.

Teaching my mother how to give birth : Shire, Warsan, 1988 Teaching my mother how to give birth : Shire, Warsan, 1988

I've been carrying the old anthem in my mouth for so long that there's no space for another song, another tongue or another language. Due to the limited length and therefore scope of this dissertation, a lengthy discussion of Nussbaum’s hypothesis cannot be attempted.Sad people have the gift of time, while the world dizzies everyone else; they remain stagnant, their bodies refusing to follow pace with the universe. Sometimes I jump in and hit the ground, sometimes the swim feels like a baptism into loving and understanding my mother more as a woman than a mother. I am interested in how these poets depict the complex mediation of female sexualities by the state, the family, religious, and cultural bodies and how, in turn, they represent sexuality as simultaneously a domain of restriction, repression, and danger as well as a domain of exploration, pleasure, and agency. Throughout this thesis I argue for the value of reading autobiographical texts alongside rape scholarship to facilitate an engaged understanding of the way discourses on rape are mutually reinforcing and are produced and reproduced across a range of discursive sites.

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth” A feminist (PDF) “Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth” A feminist

But that's not to say it needs it, simply there's love to be found even in those that prove tedious. The main focus of this dissertation is to tackle these two points; and thus, shed some light on the main sources of this alienation and suicidal attitude.Thus, the critical assessment of this poem will be enriched by the tradition of interpretative frames for the Homeric story. century Nigerian women poets have continued to utilise the aesthetics of literary devices as linguistic and literary strategies to project feminist privations and values in their creative oeuvres. The poem is only two lines, but it establishes the tone for the rest of the work; it acts like a summary for one of her strongest ideals, that of personal and cultural integrity. it deals a lot with rape, beauty standards, bulimia, expectations of chastity and (severe) domestic violence and abuse.