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This paper is on the Peter Brook production of the "Mahabharata", the Indian epic. The author contends that the process of de-contextualization of characters, plot elements and pieces of narration out of the Mahabharata's original context and into a Western mode of performance, plot construction and interpretation exhibits the latent Orientalism of the Brook production, and represents the profound and perverse commodification of the India classic. The author further explains how it was Brook's perspective and alteration of this epic that reached a broader Western audience.

From the Paper
"As a world defined by over 200 nations, and thousands of cultures, an incredibly rich history and set of traditions exists. The last century has marked a turning point in our planet's history. As never before, the distance and separation of cultures is becoming ever smaller, due to better transportation and communications infrastructures, and a desire to conduct business on a global scale. There is also an interesting and concerning adoption and synthesis of cultural practices and traditions. One could debate rather academically the merits of cultural encounter and interaction, and to say that perhaps with a synthesis of different cultural practices, a new culture is born. That may be, however the focus of this essay is to critically investigate and discuss the adoption or representation of other cultural traditions, without comprehending their meaning or significance. This is demonstrated through the Western commodification of cultures, the notion of Orientalism, and specifically focusing on the Brooks/ Carrire production of the Mahabharata."

Tags:culture, india, indian, movie, performance

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This paper examines a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks' "Song in the Front Yard" and explore its peculiar construction; use or non-use of poetic devices and its underlying message. In particular, the paper delves into the manner in which Brooks carefully uses her art to amplify her message and how her narrator pining for freedom encapsulates the yearnings of young female children and of African Americans more generally, in 1940s America.

From the Paper
"The following paper briefly examines a poem, "A Song in the Front Yard", by Gwendolyn Brooks. In particular, the paper looks at the structure of the poem, the poetic devices employed and the underlying message of the poem (at least in the view of this writer). In the final analysis, the message of the poem seems to be about the allure of the "night life" and (more subtly) about how Gwendolyn Brooks wants to explore the world around her in a way that most young girls - certainly African-American girls - could not in the days of her youth. To begin with, the structure of Brook's poem contributes mightily to its power. For one thing, three of the four stanzas in the poem are comprised of four lines, with only the third stanza (comprised of eight) breaking this pattern (Brooks 1993)."

Tags:poetry, gwendolyn, brooks

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This paper compares two of Gwendolyn Brooks' books of poetry: "Street in Bronzeville" and "Bronzeville Boys and Girls". It examines the way in which each poem depicts black life and the influence of Bronzeville on Brooks' writing.

From the Paper
"With her stunning use of form and language, Gwendolyn Brooks is often considered one of the most innovative American poets of the twentieth century. More importantly Brooks stands out as a post-Harlem Renaissance writer who speaks honestly and passionately .."

Tags:Brooks, Bronzeville, Chicago, black life

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The paper relates that Judith Butler is a post-modernist feminist theorist whose theories revolutionized thinking about gender in the 1990s. The paper looks at her most influential work "Gender Trouble", published in 1990, which argues that feminism has been mistaken in identifying women as a separate group with common characteristics. The paper examines Frances Brooke's "The History of Emily Montague" that is the first Canadian novel, and it was published in 1769. The paper describes how the novel focuses on the issue of gender, but from the point of view of love and romance - albeit it a rather subversive view of these.

From the Paper
"Judith Butler is a post-modernist feminist theorist whose theories revolutionized thinking about gender in the 1990s. Her most influential work is "Gender Trouble", published in 1990, which argues that feminism has been mistaken in identifying women as a separate group with common characteristics. Frances Brooke's "The History of Emily Montague", by contrast, is the first Canadian novel, and it was published in 1769. The novel focuses on the issue of gender, but from the point of view of love and romance - albeit it a rather subversive view of these. Butler's work..."

Tags:performativity, gender, brooke

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The paper analyzes and summarizes line-by-line the poem "The Soldier," by Rupert Brooke, written during WWI.

From the Paper
"Like the poet Rupert Brooke, I have never been in combat, but his evocative imagery and heartfelt sentiments in "The Soldier" recreate the feelings of a soldier at his most homesick and emotional. The opening of Brooke's poem is especially sad; "If I should die think only this of me. That there's some corner of a foreign field. That is forever". It immediately evokes the voice of a British soldier perhaps writing to his family or sweetheart. Within this..."

Tags:war, poetry, England, Rupert Brooke, soldier, World War I

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The paper discusses how Brooks' white audience affected her writing. The paper also considers whether her work was more geared toward these white readers, or rather toward a black audience.

From the Paper
"When Gwendolyn Brooks began publishing her poetry, her readers were in for a surprise. Appearing mostly in magazines aimed at upper and middle white audiences, Brooks' poems revealed the inner world of urban blacks, a realm previously unknown to white readers. Indeed much of the critical reaction to Brooks' poetry fixated on her race as a means of judgment; critics seemed to praise the work in spite of the fact that Brooks was an African American woman."

Tags:gwendolyn brooks, poetry, audience, white, black, racial, segregation, bronzeville, urban

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This paper compares and contrasts two poetic works about youth and experience in very different voices. The first poem is entitled "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks. In her work, Brooks imitates the language of African-American youth, describing in their own words their decision to leave school and lead a hedonistic life of drinking and going to clubs. Brooks implies in her work this was due to poor schools and society giving up on them. In contrast, the paper analyzes an unnamed poem by British writer A.E. Housman. Houseman writes about a young man who just ended his first romantic relationship at age twenty-two. He speaks of how much wiser he is not than at twenty-one. The paper contrasts the use of language in the poems: Brooks uses the words of the street whereas Housman writes from the British tradition of letters, and makes use of archaic turns of phrase to let the reader know that he is educated, and aware of a greater poetic tradition.

From the Paper
"The language of Brooks' poem is also significant in that she takes on the language of young, African-American individuals living on the margins of society. This adds an extra resonance to her commentary, as the reader assumes that one of the reasons that these students are not 'turned on' by school is not their own laziness, but that society has given up on them, and their schools are of poor quality. No wonder the world of the street seems so much more alive and meaningful to them."

Tags:drop-outs, first love, schools, romance, hedonism

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This paper presents a look at the author Terry Brooks. The writer provides Mr. Brooks' background as well as his current works. The writer of this paper discusses how Brooks makes the reader see what he is writing and understand its meaning and content.

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This six-page junior level paper focuses on the life and work of famous black American poet and author, Gwendolyn Brooks with special emphasis on her poem "The Chicago Defender sends a man to the Little rock". Brooks was an immensely talented African American writer and poet and she was deeply concerned about the plight and suffering of her community in the United States, therefore most of her work has focuses on that subject.

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In Gwendolyn Brooks' poem, "The Mother", the narrator expresses a reluctant regret and a desire for the children to which she did not give birth as a result of abortion. The paper analyzes the poem and its use of tone, diction, and imagery. It finds that the speaker is alternately regretful, self-recriminating, and motherly in her reactions to her unborn children. Taken together, Brooks' powerful shifts in tone, diction, and imagery all serve to highlight the narrator's longing, and tentative regrets over children that were never born.

From the Paper
"Taken together, the changing tone throughout "The Mother" helps to expresses the narrator's reluctant regret over abortion, and a desire for the children she did not give birth to. It is her very changes in tone and emotion throughout the poem that help to highlight her confusion and regret. She is by turns apologetic, regretful, reproachful and frustrated in her attempts to explain herself."

Tags:abortion, regret, children