Monday, January 26, 2009

Culture Within Literature

(This post is just pure blah, sorry for the headache)
this is how it came out in my "edit posts" link soo...gotta love technology, right?

The discussion%20of%20race%2C%20gender%2C%20and%20class%20is%20very%important%20because%20these%20three%20characteristics%20are%20the%20foundation%of%20humanity.%20Every%20different%20race%20has%20a%20particular%20life%20and%a%20particular%20point%20of%20view%20along%20with%20different%20genders%20and%different%20classes.%20Along%20with%20being%20the%20foundation%20these%20three%characteristics%20are%20some%20of%20the%20most%20controversial%20and% influential%characteristics.%20All%20the%20evolutions%20that%20have%20happened%20between%race%2C%20gender%2C%20and%20class%20have%20changed%20dramatically%20over the%past%20decades.%20Anyhoot%2C%20these%20three%20characteristics%20have%20a%huge%20influence%20on%20our%20literature%20of%20today.

Let's%20take%20race%20as%20the%20first%20example%3B%20Harriet%20Tubman's%20%22Uncle%20Tom's%20Cabin%22%20is%20a%20great%20story.%20Obviously%20it's%20all%20about%20slavery%20and%20the%20underground%20railroad.%20Since%20Tubman%20is%20an%20African%20American%2C%20a%20reader%20of%20a%20different%20race%20can%20%3Cspan%20style%3D%22font-style%3A%20italic%3B%22%3Ebelieve%3C%2Fspan%3E%20her%20because%20she%20is%20writing%20from%20her%20own%20personal%20experience.%20Of%20course%2C%20if%20a%20white%2C%20slave%20owner%20were%20to%20have%20written%20this%20story%2C%20the%20interpretation%20coul%20have%20been%20totally%20different.%20The%20connection%20that%20other%20readers%20would%20have%20could%20possibly%20be%20different%20from%20the%20connection%20that%20they%20had%20with%20Tubman%20more%20negative...%20But%20basically%2C%20no%20matter%20what%20circumstance%2C%20many%20aspects%20of%20any%20culture%20comes%20into%20our%20writing%
without%20anyone%20of%20us%20really%20noticing.

cultural%20backgrounds%2C%20in%20a%20way%2C%20create%20our%20personalities.%20Thus%2C%20our%20personalities%20are%20translated%20through%20our%20writing.%20Of%20course%2C%20there%20are%20probably%20a%20few%20select%20stories%20that%20do%20not%20have%20that%20world%20connection%2C%20but%20it's%20very%20rare.%20As%20in%20terms%20of%20the%20relation%20to%20pop%20culture%2C%20that%20just%20goes%20to%20show%20how%20we%20use%20our%20daily%20culture%20to%20relate%20what%20a%20particular%20author%20is%20saying.

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