For some time now, feminists have examined literary works in terms of the absent/objectified presence of the Other, in whatever form Other might be recognized (for example, anyone not white, male, or educationally and economically privileged). We have also critiqued culture and history in these terms, articulating at least some of the consequences of such constructed oppositions and exclusions. For example, Toni Morrison, in her critical text Playing in the Dark, has argued that everything that constitutes whiteness as a racial identity--from the national literature of the United States to its...

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Contemporary Literary Criticism. 1 (1973): 377-378. ... Contemporary Literary Criticism. 3 (1975): 546. ... Contemporary Literary Criticism. 9 (1978): 585. ... For example, Mary's murder was both an accident and was not. ... By the end Bigger has come to terms with his actions as the only option he had in the circumstances his oppressors offered him. ...

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To be.'11 Alexander's poem makes an example of Toomers personal struggles with understanding his race, capturing how he was not trying to dissociate himself with his heritage but was trying to move 'beyond my body, this container of flesh'. ...

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This literary, artistic, and intellectual movement, centered in New York's Harlem, kindled a new African-American cultural identity by celebrating black traditions and the black voice. ... This segment is just an example of the prejudice that blacks and minorities continued to experience even when they were supposedly "included" in the work force. ... Alice illustrates this, "You mustn't think in terms of getting even with them [white people], you must accept whatever they do for you and try to prove yourself worthy to be entrusted with more." ...

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This is an example of selective processing, which Angelou referred to with the first two lines of the poem. ... The first stanza dealt with the attitudes to African-Americans from a general historical perspective over the course of many centuries (and the literary recordings of history that came with it). ...

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