LIT2020 Final Exam Study Guide DEFINITIONS feminist critique queer theory o Short story A brief piece of prose that can be read in one sitting organizes elements to achieve an artistic effect and targets a specific audience CONTAINS CHARACTERS SETTING PLOT CONFLICT AND THEME o The cannon a collection of stories o Prose writing Novel Novella Short story one you can read in one sitting Short short story Flash fiction 500 900 words Microfiction 100 words o Description 1 Gender identity and sexuality determines interpretation 2 All people do not have the same access to literature 3 Literature can institute social change o Application 1 Identify Groups to which another belongs 2 Undermine or promote stereotypes 3 What affect does it have on certain readers how does it neglect other readers o CONSIDER male privilege heterosexual privilege o Feminist critique discriminate sexually and about power agency women in literature a literary critique that seeks to objectify oppress patriarch First wave Second wave EQUAL RIGHTS legal fought in courts suffrage official recognition property rights uncovering of the oppressor sexuality broader rights family work DIVERSITY representation more CONTEMPORARY thinkers IDENTITY more about AUTONOMY subjectivity and language and Third wave Gender is a social construction Gender is a performance SEEN IN MASCULINE CONFESSION Goal to reveal and create female presence in literature reveal and resist sexism increase awareness of women s issues and to provide an alternate approach o Queer theory Resists the binaries of male female Compulsory heterosexuality there are only 2 choices of gender and every institution in our society makes you choose one gender Heterocentrism about privilege there are certain privileges given to you Goal to examine how gender is constructed performed and inhabited by when you identify as heterosexual individuals within a cultural context Examines language and other symbolic codes to find queer tension and re imagines relations to see if they relate to non heterosexual relationships EXAMPLE Batman and robin are actually lovers o Gender bending breaking down invisible barriers created by different gender roles ex women writing as men Judy Brady used gender bending in I Want a Wife the same conversation 2 seemingly different topics and putting them in o Comparative literary analysis CHARACTERS o A Good Man is Hard to Find Flannery O Connor Bailey The Misfit Grandmother a wanted criminal who stumbles upon the family when they unnamed like every other woman in the story takes any opportunity to judge the lack of goodness in people but never turns her critical eye on herself to inspect her hypocrisy and dishonesty Thinks she is able to sway the misfit from murdering her because she is a woman but just before she is killed she realized where she has gone wrong in her life and she realizes instead of being superior she is flawed like everyone else crash their car in the woods Is a classic skeptic questions the meaning of life doesn t know for sure whether Jesus really raised the dead and has opted for meanness as a way of giving his life meaning He reveals a self awareness that the grandmother lacks because he knows he isn t a great man He has two men kill the entire family but he shoots the grandma himself seems to love his mother but sometimes her behavior gets the best of him Wrecks his car when the grandmother s cat jumps into his arm He and John Wesley are the first to be killed by the misfit Wesley and baby Breaks her shoulder in the car crash and eventually killed by one of the men of the Misfit John Wesley visit the house the grandmother talks about because she says it has a secret panel June Star star of the show a self centered princess loud and obnoxious young girl Loudly speaks her mind and makes observations about those around her She is the only woman in the story to have a name because she is still innocent and has an identity family s car Bobby Lee and looks like a pig one of the escaped criminals Wears a gray hat and inspects the one of the escaped criminals According to June star he is fat a boy s boy loud obnoxious 8 year old boy Wants to married to Bailey mother of June star john The Children s Mother Hiram Red Sammy the owner of the Tower restaurant According to the grandmother Red Sammy is a good man Red Sammy says A good man is hard to find entire family Nervous cat who causes an accident that seals the fate of the Pity Sing o Good Country People Flannery O Connor 1955 Mrs Hopewell Hulga considers Mrs Freeman to be extremely nosy has worked Mrs Hopewell s daughter mother refuses to call her by her real with her for 4 years name Joy which she chose for its ugliness Has a weak heart and probably doesn t have that much longer to live which is why she lives at home Her mother connects her lack of faith to her PHD in philosophy which she deems is worthless boy who sells Bibles called a poor country boy by Mrs Hopewell and may die soon because of a heart condition Connects with Helga on the fact they may die soon Asks Helga about her wooden leg after he asks her on a picnic She s clearly bothered by this question and he drops the subject Very interested in Helga s fake leg and asks her to take it off white Manley they kiss Opens his valise to reveal that there are only two bibles inside and they are fake they open to reveal a flask of whiskey pack of cards and some medicine Helga thinks he s just good country people but obviously she was wrong He laughs and implies he s going to rape her She accuses him of being a hypocrite because he is Christian and he abandons her so she can t get down from the barn without her leg Queenie The narrator a 19 year old boy who works the checkout line at A P in New England When 3 girls enter his store wearing only bathing suits and are yelled at by the manager Sammy quits his job hoping to impress them A teenage girl who is seen as superior to the other two girls in her group that enters the A P store in bathing quits Sammy nicknames her queenie and falls in love with her at first sight She is seen as the leader of the three girls and when the store manager reprimands her for wearing only a bathing suit in the store she defends herself by saying she needs to buy herring sacks for her mother is a by the books manager stuffy uptight and an authority figure Confronts the girls about their skimpy attire and tells them they need to have covered shoulders while in his store which embarrasses and