Editor’s Note: Readers should be aware that this post contains a discussion of rape in A Streetcar Named Desire, and rape culture, which may be triggering. I’m going to preface this blog post with a trigger warning for mentions of rape, sexual assault, and David Hookstead’s often-controversial social justice ideology. When I read A Streetcar…
Post-impressionism was a movement in art in the 1880s which Vincent Van Gogh was at the forefront of. “Through the use of simplified colors and definitive forms, their [post impressionist’s] art was characterized by a renewed aesthetic sense as well as abstract tendencies” (Voorhies). Tennessee Williams creates a sense of immediacy by using these techniques to…
The play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams was originally displayed and depicted by white actors and actresses, such as the film adaptation in 1951. Recently the play was redone at the Broadhurst Theater in April of 2012, directed by Emily Mann and had a cast of black actors and actresses playing the leading…
In an early lecture on Anne Bradstreet, Professor Steele introduced to us the concept of “cultural location.” Bradstreet, for example, operated within a Puritan society that discouraged women from writing, forcing her to conceal beliefs contradictory to or dubious of the accepted religious and social norms. Bradstreet navigates these limitations through irony. For example, in…
Reading the play A Streetcar Named Desire, I instantly noticed the gender stereotyping that Tennessee Williams brings to light in each of the characters, and became interested in how this relates to gender stereotypes in advertisements today. We discussed advertisements at length during The Great Gatsby lectures, but did not touch upon them related to…
American Lit 309 Fall 13 