Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo

Throughout the novel, Acosta exercises his self-imposed male privilege through his constant objectification of women. An example of Oscar’s commodification of women is shown through his sexual attitude towards female bodies. During a trip Oscar’s favorite bar JJ’s he refers to two women as his ‘sister;’ however the encounter becomes sexual. “Bertha removes his hand from around her waist. She throws her deliciously zoftig breasts into me. ‘My Brown Buffalo can take even Bertha babes whenever he’s ready too.’ Because she comes to my defense and because I love her gorgeous cans against my chest I stick my tongue in her ear as a reward.” Oscar’s commodification of women and utilization of vulgar, descriptive language is an attempt to emphasize his male sexuality. Oscar’s objectification follows the traditional male dominated societal view which utilizes grotesque language and the physical characteristics of women to highlight their machismo. In addition, Acosta’s uses his constant obsession and with the female figure as a distraction from his negative perception towards his own bodily image. This anxiety stems from his childhood when he describes how he would attempt to hide his obesity by…

Both Oscar Zetas Autobiography of the Brown Buffalo and Ana Castillo’s Novel So Far From God are examples of the use of magic realism and mythology in Chicano/a literature. However, both pieces of Chicano/a literature display their own unique interpretation of self-identity. Beginning with the plot of the Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, Oscar is a lawyer at the East Oakland Legal Aid society. He drives to his office in downtown San Francisco only to discover that his secretary, who usually…

criticism by Gerald Rosselot, L.H Welchel Jr, John Reilly, Andrews, Robert S., Levine, Anne Ducille, Paul Gilmore, and John Ernest question the reasons for William Wells Brown purpose in writing the book and identify him as a trickster. It is very important to know what Clotel represents to the African American people and white. This story is classified as propaganda since the novel also focuses on attracting abolitionist to get rid of slavery. The critics support the idea that Clotel mostly…

Living principally in and around St. Louis, Missouri until the age of twenty, Brown was exposed to and experienced slavery amid remarkably wide-ranging conditions. William Wells Brown worked as a house servant, a field slave, and was hired out as an assistant to a tavern keeper, a printer, and was “Enslaved” by the slave trader James Walker, who voyaged extensively, traveling to and from the New Orleans slave market on the Mississippi River. After at least two failed attempts, Brown did escape…

as I have already said, Lincoln put the letter aside, for he had learned by bitter experience that sharp criticisms and rebukes almost invariably end in futility. Theodore Roosevelt said that when he, as President, was confronted with a perplexing problem, he used to lean back and look up at a large painting of Lincoln which hung above his desk in the White House and ask himself, “What would Lincoln do if he were in my shoes? How would he solve this problem?” The next time we are tempted to…