This digital poster explores a common theme in two works of literature. Create a digital poster related to the theme of your Unit 4 Essay. This poster must reference the literature that you wrote about in that essay. This is a multi-modal composition, which means that it will combine both text and visual design.Focus on the following four criteria: Design, Clarity, Content, and Grammar.
Design: Overall visual appeal. I'm not expecting professional graphic design work, but it should be reasonably attractive.
Clarity: Is it easy to read the text? For example, don't put white text on a yellow background.
Content: 75+ words. Convey a clear argument or idea.
Grammar: This is a brief writing assignment, so you should be able to catch and correct any grammatical errors. Stylistic choices, like using sentence fragments with bullet points, will not be considered errors.
Jean Larriva Kean University 6/18/2022 Introduction Kimberle Crenshaw introduced the concept of intersectionality in 1989 to refer to various types of oppressions faced by black women in different societies (Carbado, D. W., Crenshaw, K. W., Mays, V. M., & Tomlinson, B. 2013). The prevailing idea in feminist thought on the relationship between the repressive institutions that form our different identities and the social positions we occupy within them is now known as intersectionality. A well-known Latin American colonial and Hispanic Baroque author developed her philosophical views on women and herself via the genres of letter writing and poetry. Only a few genres, such as poetry and letters, were acceptable for women to write in at this time. Because of this restriction, Sor Juana utilised the inherent qualities of these two genres to shield her ideas from criticism. As a prominent feminist of her time, Juana asserts that reading literature from a single feminist perspective (like gender discrimination) is dangerous because it ignores race, social constructions or geography which are equally important. Summary Sor Juana's famous redonilla "Hombres necios," (Foolish Men) is a remarkable logical argument that defies understanding as the mainstream speech of an anarchist in seventeenth-century Mexico (Academy of American Poets). To make an argument, Sor Juana cannibalizes the love subject by using it as a pretext for philosophical discussions and as a platform for her own work clear argumentation. While speaking on multi-dimensional against a one-dimensional literature, Chimamanda Adichie's "Danger of a Single Story" lecture is a fascinating presentation that underlines the bias that people all over the world are prone to on a variety of problems just because of what they read, whether consciously or subconsciously. Some storylines are so bland that readers form false or incomplete conclusions. The author contends that stereotypes are created by a single story, which causes them to be incomplete rather than inaccurate "They turn one narrative into the sole story" (Adichie 2009). On a firm conclusion, the "Dangers of a Single Story" requires for a variety of knowledge about things and people. We frequently make snap judgments about others based on the few information we have available, only to discover that our assumptions were completely incorrect. For instance, the globe frequently has an image of Africa as a very dark and underdeveloped continent. There is never anything positive highlighted about the continent, and many Americans and other people all around the world have been duped into thinking that it is a country rather than a continent. The image we have of Sor Juana as a woman is distorted by self-imposed images of her as a poet and scholar, evading and parodying the gender categories of her day via dense and engrossing webs of rhetorical structure and intellectual reference that few of her contemporaries could access. Since her tercentenary in 1951, her work has received increasingly serious and comprehensive critical scrutiny, forming an even more imposing superstructure of authority and reputation. While Latin American women readers and writers are drawn to Sor Juana's image as a predecessor, the thick erudition that has recently received critical attention may be culturally unfamiliar to the female reader of the twentieth century. The overwhelming impression is of her status as an exception in terms of sex and distance from the European center of culture as readers and critics from the twentieth century reread the works of this woman who was hailed by her editors as the "Tenth Muse," and as critics explain the complexity and subtlety of her classical allusions and scientific knowledge. She is an example of the need for special privilege to allow a talented woman to develop and exercise her talents in a culture that restricts women's options, and her life is an illustration of the precariousness of that position when seen in the context of feminist readers in the 20th century (Huang Hoon, C., Mighty, J., Roxå, T., Deane Sorcinelli, M., & DiPietro, M. 2019). Conclusion In the poem You Foolish Me, several verses are pertinent to the world today. For instance, in the poem, Sor Juana rebukes the men who seek out pleasure from women but look at the women who seek pleasure from men as dirty and filthy. This is evident when she writes “You foolish men who lay the guilt on women, not seeing you’re the cause of the very thing you blame; if you invite their disdain with measureless desire why wish they well behave if you incite to ill”. This is the actual point where Sor Juana moves away from other feminist writers in that she unfolds all the arguments and counter-arguments of any story. She is aware that having numerous social identities at once—including those related to gender, ethnicity, class, age, etc.—can result in opportunities as well as oppressions, depending on the context. References Carbado, D. W., Crenshaw, K. W., Mays, V. M., & Tomlinson, B. (2013). INTERSECTIONALITY: Mapping the Movements of a Theory1. Du Bois review: social science research on race, 10(2), 303-312. Academy of American Poets. (n.d.). You foolish men by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz - poems | academy of American poets. Poets.org. Retrieved June 17, 2022, from https://poets.org/poem/you-foolish-men Adichie, C. N. (2009). The danger of a single story. Huang Hoon, C., Mighty, J., Roxå, T., Deane Sorcinelli, M., & DiPietro, M. (2019). ‘The danger of a single story:’a reflection on institutional change, voices, identities, power, and outcomes. International Journal for Academic Development, 24(2), 97-108.