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Best of luck to all on their papers/presentations. :)
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Manhood in Donald Duk and Native Speaker
I've attached an article (the link is below) that might be relevant to someone's upcoming paper, especially if anyone will be exploring gender issues in their upcoming paper/presentation. I read it for my paper on Donald Duk, and though I didn't get to use it, I was impressed by some of the ideas this author develops. The main one is that Donald Duk is not just a masculine work, but one that tries to assert Asian American masculinity. This idea isn't just relevant to Donald Duk. Native Speaker is very much about Henry's journey into a kind of second manhood. Like Donald Duk, Henry must take responsibility for his mistakes by acknowledging his wrongdoing, making amends, and then continuing to do what's right. He does this by quitting his job and no longer using silence as a weapon against Lelia. If anyone plans on doing something like this, Lee addresses what it means to be a man on the bottom of page 29 to the top of page 30.
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In comparing the works that we've read that have been written by male authors to those that have been written by female authors, we can see a slight shift not only in writing styles, but also in content. However, general themes still seem to be evident in both. For example, both Donald and Leila were on a search for his or her own identity. Family and family obligations was also a common theme in both stories as both characters worried about upsetting their respective families. A third theme was trying to combine both the American culture that each has grown accustomed to to the Asian culture that each was born into.
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