Metonymy

Gender roles and masculinity are social themes that are frequently discussed in our society and apply uniquely to Latin@ culture. ‘Macho’ is simply the Spanish translation of ‘male,’ but it has taken on connotations that relate to having masculine qualities. In the context of Latin America, ‘machismo’ is a term that relates to male sexuality; it is “a concept that dictates many aspects of Latin American male behavior,” (Kobashigawa). Such qualities are performative in that men and women are…

There has been great debate over the difference between the surrealist and the avant-garde, and whether or not they are simply different branches of the same movement, that surrealism is just a romanticised extension of the avant-garde. André Breton, the movement’s considered leader, regarded surrealism as a belief in superior forms of reality in his 1924 Surrealist Manifesto, and irrespective of more contemporary arguments over the exact definition or difference, was above all explicit in his…

Staging the Legacy of White Masculinity: A Dramaturgical Reading of Faulkner’s Light in August In Light in August, Faulkner adds an ensemble of characters to his fictional town of Jefferson, Mississippi. Perhaps the most intricate of these additions are Lena Grove, a pregnant woman who enters Jefferson in search of her unborn child’s elusive father; Joe Christmas, a racially ambiguous man whose questionable blood triggers his alienation; and Reverend Gail Hightower, a defrocked minister whose…

speaker? Is there an identifiable audience for the speaker? What can we know about it (her, him, or them)? What is the occasion? State the central idea or theme of the poem in a sentence. Point out examples of metaphor, simile, personification, and metonymy, and explain their appropriateness” (641). This is just a few out of a list of twenty one questions. This exercise lasted for about three…

Jorge Francisco Isidore Luis Borges (24th August 1899-14th June 1986)’s Other Inquisitions (1964) [originally published as Otras Inquisiciones in 1952] forms a necessary complement to the fictional entities of Fictions (originally published as Ficciones in 1944) and The Aleph (published as El Aleph in 1949) which made him a towering personality in Latin American avant-garde literature. Poet, essayist, critic, translator- Borges is truly a virtuoso. His fiction, a vortex for seemingly the entire…