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Talk To You Later (TTYL)
TTYL by Dazee Dizzle
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Jazz Round’ Midnight: Soundtrack To My Life
By Joy Lynn Clark 12/11/2017 Charlie Parker’s music is the soundtrack to my life; familiar and always playing in the background. The memories run through my mind like scenes from a movie. As I listened to, “Jazz Round Midnight”, and considered the history, these are my impressions. I was listening to Embraceable You when I started to do a search online. My first hit was an article about a lost baby, a bottle, and a promise to come home. Was he just trying to sleep? I lost my connection right when I got to the part about the sculpture of a head. Then I skimmed another review about Charlie Parker from a black…
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Lieutenant Nun: Freedom Through Violence?
This next paper was a response to Catalina De Erauso’s The Lieutenant Nun. The main character runs away from the convent, dresses in drag, and has a fantastic life as a man. This was my response. Lieutenant Nun: Freedom Through Violence? In my opinion, Catalina De Erauso’s adventurous tale of the transvestite nun is fascinating. Her story exposes how a woman views man’s social standing through freedom and access. Even an unknown man has the freedom to gamble, make money, and receive an education if he chooses. However, it soon becomes clear that this freedom is attained through violence. Soon after Erauso flees the convent she is offered a job…
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Sor Juana and Women’s Studies In The New World
By Joy Lynn Clark 11/20/2017 When reading about Sor (Sister) Juana Del La Cruz’s life it is clear that she was interested in scholarly work at an early age. In addition, much of Sor Juana’s writing includes references to women in literature and history. In my opinion, Sor Juana De La Cruz is one of the earliest scholars of Women’s studies in the New World. In, “La Respuesta”, Sor Juana mentions that she wants education through, ” . . . Letters and private study.” I believe that Sor Juana’s primary interest was to work as an academic which, she could only achieve as a nun. In the era of New Spain, the only alternative to…
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A Response to Virginia Woolf’s, “A Room of One’s Own”
By Joy Lynn Clark (This response to the reading was part of an assignment in Latin American women writers class taught by Professor Christian Roa at The University of Illinois at Chicago) Virginia Woolf is a poet and author. Woolf is a predecessor of Jane Austen and was one of the first women to have tenure at a University. Unfortunately, she was not allowed to enter the library or sit on the grass. “A Room of One’s Own”, was about what she has to live with as the only educated woman on campus and what she wants to achieve as a writer. Because this paper was meant to be a…
