ENGL 1289 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Jazz Club, Nella Larsen
23 Apr 2016
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Self-fashioning (create the self in her own terms) *these are only threatening because they lead to change. Helga fits a lot of these characteristics (smart, teaching, cultured denmark art, at ease with technology. Larson"s project is invested in engaging the new woman while applying race to this picture. Sir journer truth yea, race changes the 19th century what it means to say i am a woman . Rather than condemn helga for the cycle of happiness/unhappiness not her specifically as the protagonist but we might start to understand this cycle as inflicted by race. Race is what is affecting this cycle and the new woman that is overlapping race will perpetually be on this ongoing cycle. Virginia wolf does the same imagining as nella larsen: Let me imagine, since facts are so hard to come by, what would"ve happened had shakespeare had a gifted sister named judith, let us say proceeds with what judith might"ve done.
