This Blessed House Essay
what you need to do is in a picture I am sending then once someone says they can help me I will send the story of the “This Blessed House,”
I am putting below the concepts you should be trying to use in the essay to and the essay needs to be 3 pages time new romans and MLA please. Also needs to be grammer free because my teacher really looks at that.
SPACE & TIME
Agency: the capacity of a person to make choices and act freely in the world.
Carnivalesque: social act, equally apparent in literature, marked by humor, chaos, and attention to the body, usually in defiance or subversion of authority and cultural norms—with no consequences for:
- familiar and free interaction of people;
- eccentric behavior;
- binary misalliances;
- the sacrilegious. [Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World (1965)]
Gaze: a glance, look, observation or surveillance which powerfully constructs the object, dehumanizing and objectifying the individual while asserting a position of control. [Michel Foucault, Birth of the Clinic (1963), Discipline and Punish (1975)]
Panopticon: a powerful disciplinary mechanism that places the object of study in a state of constant visibility, and thus always under observation and control. [Foucault, Discipline and Punish (1975)]
Power: an act, through ability or official capacity to exercise control of a system or function, reducing and limiting the will and freedom of the individual. [Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish (1975), “The Subject and Power” (1982)]
Synopticon: a mechanism, largely indebted to mass media and technology, where the many observe the few, yet where all remain vulnerable. [Thomas Mathiesen, The Viewer Society: Michel Foucault’s Panopticon Revisited (1997)]
POSTS
Binary Opposition/Privilege: the activity of thinking and expressing concepts in contrary pairs, with one element of the pair privileged [Jacques Derrida, Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences (1966)].
Colonialism: the subjection of one culture by another; it may involve military conquest but extends to the imposition of the dominant power’s ideological values and customs on those of the conquered peoples.
Demonic ‘Other’: the perspective that those who are different from oneself are not only backward but also savage, even evil.
Eurocentrism: the assumption that European ideals & experiences are a standard by which all other cultures are to be measured and judged inferior.
Exotic ‘Other’: the perspective that those who are different from oneself possess an inherent dignity and beauty, perhaps because of their more undeveloped, natural state of being.
Hybridity: the quality of cultures that have characteristics of both the colonizers and the colonized; it is marked by conflicts and tensions, as these cultures are constantly changing and evolving [Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture (1994)].
Imperialism: the policy and practice of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomatic coercion and military force.
Neocolonialism: domination of a developing nation by international corporations attracted by cheap labor and political and legal systems they can manipulate.
Orientalism: representation of Arab peoples and cultures that imagines, emphasizes, distorts and exaggerates differences with privileged Eurocentric cultures, cultivating stereotypes [Edward Said, Orientalism (1978)].
Postcolonialism: the study of a culture after the physical and/or political withdrawal of an oppressive power; in literature, this analysis seeks to uncover the colonialist or anti-colonialist ideologies in a text.
Postcolonial Literature: the writings produced by members of the indigenous culture or by settlers (and their descendants) with ties to both the invading culture and the oppressed one; in English-speaking nations, the term usually refers to the literature of former colonies of the British Empire.
Third Space: the fluid, transitional place between cultures where new forms of cultural meaning and representation are possible, blurring limitations and denying categorizations of established culture and identity. [Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture (1994)]
Unhomeliness: the sense of being culturally displaced, of being caught between two cultures and not “at home” in either of them; it is felt by those who lack a clearly-defined cultural identity. [Homi Bhabha, “The World and the Home” (1992)]
DIFFERENCE
American Africanism: stereotypical concepts and constructs placed by white writers on black characters and culture in their works. [Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark (1992)]
‘Angel in the House’: Victorian phrase (poem by Coventry Patmore, 1854) in which the woman typifies the values of patriarchal femininity and domesticity; Virginia Woolf made famous the term in an essay. [(Virginia Woolf, “Professions for Women” (1931)]
Compulsory Heterosexuality: heterosexuality perceived as a violent political institution making way for the “male right of physical, economical, and emotional access” to women. [Adrienne Rich, “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence” (1980)]
Cultural Capital: not simply economic advantages gained through wealth, but also access to ways of speaking, behavior, taste, and discrimination that distinguish individuals of this class. [Pierre Bourdieu, “The Forms of Capital” (1985)]
Double Bind: marginalization, oppression, discrimination and disenfranchisement of an individual for more than a single socio-cultural reason.
Double Consciousness: the awareness that blacks are caught between two cultures, the African culture and its evolution in America and the dominant white culture. [W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903)]
Double-Voiced: the warring ideals of white culture and black culture represented in African-American literary writing—a quality which makes it unique and seeks to revise Western literary tradition. [Henry Louis Gates, The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism (1988)]
Gender: refers to the socially-constructed identities man, woman, masculine, feminine;. gender is held to be a product of the prevailing mores, expectations, and stereotypes of a particular culture and so is arbitrary.
L’Ecriture Feminine: wholeness of selfhood in women’s writing—fluid, melodic language that is the natural result of feminine thought processes—that is separate and distinguishable from the analytical style of writing typical of male-dominated culture. [Hélène Cixous, “Laugh of the Medusa” (1975)]
Lesbian Continuum: broad spectrum of intimate relations between women, from those involving sexual desire to mother-daughter relationships and female friendships, to ties of political solidarity. [Adrienne Rich, “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence” (1980)]
Performative Acts: position that gender identity is compelled by social sanction and taboo, repeatedly constructed through time, and always constructed through the body: 1) speech; 2) attire; 3) behavior. [Judith Butler, “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution” (1988)]
Sex: the biological designation of male or female, based on anatomy.
Sisterhood: psychological/political bonding of women based upon recognition of common experiences and goals.
Woman’s Sentence: belief that women writers should develop their own characteristic styles of expression rather than employing styles developed in the course of literary tradition by men. [Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (1929)]
LIFE
Agency: the capacity of the individual to act in and respond to the context of their lived conditions
Biopower: external practices of power and material relations by modern nation states that regulate and determine ‘life’ by subjugating the individual. [Michel Foucault, The Will to Knowledge (1976)]
Biopolitical: strategies and mechanisms of government, creating sociopolitical constraints and power structures to which the individual is subject. [Foucault, “Society Must Be Defended” (1975)]
Bios: form of life circumscribed by social categories—gender, class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, nationality, disability. (Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics (c. 350 B.C.E.)
Prosumer: production of the subject through consumptive living practices.
Resistance: refusal to accept or comply with acts of hegemonic, interpellative and biolpolitical powers that attempt to standardize life.
Zoe: raw, unfettered quality of our biological existence—‘animal’ life (Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics (c. 350 B.C.E.)
NATURE
Anthropocentrism: the position that the interests of humans are higher than those of non-humans.
Biocentrism: the position that all organisms, including humans, are part of a larger biotic network whose welfare must direct human interests.
Ecocentrism: view that the interests of the ecosphere must override the interests of individual species, with no dividing lines between the living and nonliving, the animate and inanimate.
Ecocriticism: study of relationship between literature and the environment, conducted in a spirit of commitment to environmental ethics. [Lawrence Buell, The Environmental Imagination (1995)]
L’animot: term meant to invoke the plurality of nonhuman life forms and their suffering in the complex relationship of animal-human distinctions. [Jacques Derrida, The Animal That Therefore I Am (1997)]
Posthumanism: idea that humanity can be transformed, transcended or eliminated either by technological advances or the evolutionary process:
- transhumanism: eliminate aging, enhance intellectual, physical, psychological capacities;
- AI takeover: humans will be replaced by artificial intelligences;
- voluntary human extinction.
AGENCY
Agency: the capacity of a person to make choices and act freely in the world.
Authority: institutionalized or legal power to constrain and convert subjects.
Culture: the sum of social patterns, traits, and products of a particular time or group of people; practices, habits, customs, beliefs and traditions that become institutions within that time and space, particular to that time and space.
Discourse: ways of speaking that are bound by ideological, professional, cultural, political, or sociological communities—ways of thinking and talking about the world which promote specific kinds of power relations.
False Consciousness: an ideology that appears of value but which actually serves the interests of those in power, offering the illusion of being part of the “natural order” of things, but they actually disguise and draw one’s attention from socio-economic conditions that limit, oppress, and deny the potential of the individual. [Friedrich Engels, “Letter to Mehring” (1893)]
Hegemony: the ‘spontaneous consent’ given by the masses to the imposed, formalized social practices of the dominant fundamental power, convincing the less powerful these behaviors are for their own good. [Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks (c. 1927-35)]
Identity Politics: ideological formations that typically aim to secure the political freedom of a specific marginalized constituency within its larger context through assertion of power, reclamation of distinctive characteristics, and appropriation of signifiers that have been used to oppress or demean.
Ideology: a belief system that develops out of cultural conditioning—and which may be repressive or oppressive even as it is passed off as “the way it is” in the world; these interrelated ideas form a seemingly coherent view of the world.
Interpellation: a process by which ideology constitutes subjected identity through institutions, discourses, and other social, cultural and familial factors:
- situation precedes subject, ‘hailing’ the subject who is ‘always-already interpellated’
- identities are produced by social forces rather than independent agency, constituted in Ideological State Apparatuses (schools, churches, families, and so on) and Repressive State Apparatuses (government, courts, police force, military). [Louis Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” (1971)]
Performative Acts: position that gender identity is compelled by social sanction and taboo, repeatedly constructed through time, and always constructed through the body: 1) speech;
2) attire; 3) behavior. [Judith Butler, “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution” (1988)]
Political Unconscious: the concept that all texts are destabilized by their historical reality—that is, the text is a socially symbolic act, given its reliance on an historical language and material conditions that are, themselves, ideological acts of false consciousness. [Frederic Jameson, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as Socially Symbolic Act (1981)]
Power: an act, through ability or official capacity to exercise control of a system or function, reducing and limiting the will and freedom of the individual. [Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish (1975), “The Subject and Power” (1982)]
Resistance: refusal to accept or comply with acts of hegemonic, interpellative and biolpolitical powers that attempt to standardize life.
Subjectivity: parameters of identity, recognized by others, as defined by cultural and social practices.
