American Literary Modernism
“American literary Poetry was the period marked by sudden and unexpected breaks with the traditional ways of viewing and interacting with the world, a relatively strong sense of cohesion, and similarities across genres and locales” (Web, The Literature Network). “The one fundamental constant for Modernist’ is breaking normal traditions” (Web, The Literature Network). Modernism sees the individual (decay) and become alienated. Nature and Being, held great interest in the earlier poets in previous discussions, but Modernism saw individualism. “Although generally called a movement, it is more valid to see modernism as an international body of literature characterized by a new self-consciousness about modernity and …show more content…
A River Merchant’s Wife, a husband who is away from his wife on a business trip for six months receives a letter from her. “While her husband travels and sells goods, the wife tells him (through this letter) all the beautiful things he’s missing and how she can’t wait for him to get home” (Web, Schmoop). The wife seems to be trying to overcome the despair, and isolation, of missing her husband through displaying her emotions and loneliness to him through …show more content…
In the fiction novel Habibi, by Craig Thompson, this theme is orchestrated. Habibi is a love story, first and foremost, set in a “fictional Middle East, that is simultaneously modern and medieval” (Web, Mother Jones). From the beginning until the end, Dodola and Zam, who are runaway slaves, the love story is central, however, the obstacles placed in their path, including forced marriage, rape, and religious societal norms will test their fate. Sexuality and the lack of sexual fulfillment will also be an obstacle that is met, by both Dodola and Zam, initially in very different ways. Through the adversities of prostitution, rape, race, conformity, gender, self-harm, and child sexual abuse, both never forget one another, regardless of the many situational “wrongs” done to them and years of separation they experience. The novel raises many questions about the throws of love, but the central message is that through adversities, rather big or small, love can overcome anything if it is (true love). . There are many lessons to learn from this novel, but the main lesson is really simple. Adversity can be overcome through acceptance and “true
“American literary Poetry was the period marked by sudden and unexpected breaks with the traditional ways of viewing and interacting with the world, a relatively strong sense of cohesion, and similarities across genres and locales” (Web, The Literature Network). “The one fundamental constant for Modernist’ is breaking normal traditions” (Web, The Literature Network). Modernism sees the individual (decay) and become alienated. Nature and Being, held great interest in the earlier poets in previous discussions, but Modernism saw individualism. “Although generally called a movement, it is more valid to see modernism as an international body of literature characterized by a new self-consciousness about modernity and …show more content…
A River Merchant’s Wife, a husband who is away from his wife on a business trip for six months receives a letter from her. “While her husband travels and sells goods, the wife tells him (through this letter) all the beautiful things he’s missing and how she can’t wait for him to get home” (Web, Schmoop). The wife seems to be trying to overcome the despair, and isolation, of missing her husband through displaying her emotions and loneliness to him through …show more content…
In the fiction novel Habibi, by Craig Thompson, this theme is orchestrated. Habibi is a love story, first and foremost, set in a “fictional Middle East, that is simultaneously modern and medieval” (Web, Mother Jones). From the beginning until the end, Dodola and Zam, who are runaway slaves, the love story is central, however, the obstacles placed in their path, including forced marriage, rape, and religious societal norms will test their fate. Sexuality and the lack of sexual fulfillment will also be an obstacle that is met, by both Dodola and Zam, initially in very different ways. Through the adversities of prostitution, rape, race, conformity, gender, self-harm, and child sexual abuse, both never forget one another, regardless of the many situational “wrongs” done to them and years of separation they experience. The novel raises many questions about the throws of love, but the central message is that through adversities, rather big or small, love can overcome anything if it is (true love). . There are many lessons to learn from this novel, but the main lesson is really simple. Adversity can be overcome through acceptance and “true