Colonialism In The American Poetry Of Daddy By Sylvia Plath

America, a country founded by the few for the millions as it stands today, following the ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as coined from the Declaration of Independence. Just like other national literatures, American literature was shaped by its historical and cultural aspect which roots back to the times of the natives, but the writing tradition begun with the arrival of colonialist so called English adventurous in the New World and evolved throughout centuries till today and many authors from all classes, male or female, black or white from the colonial to the contemporary genre have contributed to enrich and destroy various biases constructed by the norms. For centuries the female voice was silenced and the few who could

In which she insist the urge to kill him, but the he dies before she had time. There is also a strong Nazi Germany and holocaust imagery, “With your Luftwafe […] Meinkamp look.” Some critics argue though that her range against her “daddy” is merely a symbol of patrıarchy. Now let us examine a broader issue that has been strangling the American history for centuries: ethnicity and race. Speaking of colonialism, slavery would be the first think that would come to our minds; it took centuries to abolish it, meanwhile racial and ethnic minorities were marginalized where they were constrained by Eurocentric ideas. This was still not an excuse to prevent the diversity in American literature. Frederick Douglass would be one of the most influential African American of the 19th century. After escaping from slavery he has preached at various communities, attended a convention of the Massachusetts Antislavery Society and would lead the antislavery movement, support women’s rights. His speech during the Seneca Falls Convention brought a resolution to the women suffrage, “at any rate, seeing that the male government of the world have failed, it can do no harm to try the experiment of a government by man and woman united […]" What he said was that America would turn in to a better place if the minority and constrained were given to right to

Maxine Hong Kingston contributed the Chinese American Literary genre and her story The Women Warrior draw attention to gender and ethnicity, especially how these ideas did influence the lives of women, “I'm not a bad girl, I would scream. I'm not a bad girl. I'm not a bad girl. I might as well have said, I'm not a girl." Most of the story is pretty much like a quest for one truth and authenticity; “Chinese-Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?” Not to mention the first arrivals of Chinese had a difficulty in expressing their silenced neglected voice and thus her story provides an insight for reader to understand the ground of being a first generation Chinese American Woman, moreover, Bharati Mukherjee’s, a Indian born American citizen, A Wife's Story narrates the experiences of newcomers form the south, how hard it is to destroy the stereotypes. For example the narrator wants to write to Steven Spielberg to “tell him that Indians don’t eat monkey brains.” There are also many comparisons of Indian marriage customs, when Panna’s husband visits her in New York City. We learn that the couples have sharing an