When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision and In Search of Our Mothe

Women. Adrienne Rich says we have our work cut prohibited for us. Alice Walker says we could do so much given the artistic chance. Patricia Williams says that we be not sleeping. I listen and relate to these women. And I wonder what do I say? I am a woman. I dont deal what it means for me to be a woman. I just am. Be Insatiable. Be insatiable and still a woman. Stand for your beliefs, be a flush and yet stay soft and sexy and agreeable. I feel alike a lousy commercial for some perfume, I can transmit home the bacon, fry it up in the pan, and never let you pull up stakes youre a man, because Im a woman. I am caught in the crossfire of who I am and who I ought to be according to everybody else. Is this what Williams dream at the end of her shew was about? The red dress, the hair and she is loud. She is the her that she had constantly dreamed of being, fascinating. What I realize Fascinating is that even she is memorizeing herself from the outside. I do this. I watch myse lf play each role. I am not black, or Hispanic. I am heterosexual. I indispensableness to be a wife. I want to be a mother. I can look at confederation and see myself staring back at me, white, Christian and content. Does this make me unskilled to read and understand the meanings in the texts of Alice Walker, of Gloria Anzaldua? What about Adrienne Rich? These women have st ared into the shell of society and they are not reflected. But I do relate. sometime I feel like the silent minority within the bulk. The 1 that thinks and feels and understands and yet is overlooked, ignored. I feel ignored because of the majority view that the because of the majority view that the minority has. I hear about the Mormon in this area, the ... ...s the words of her fascinating self say, Voices lost in the chasm speak from the unwilling eloquent fact of the chasm. They speak and speak and speak, like flowing peeing and she wakens strong, single hearted and completely refreshed. Florida Scott Card said you do not lead to claim all the events in your life to make them yours, but when you do, you are fierce with reality. It is not always easy o reality. It is not always easy or notable to be a woman. Being a woman speaks from the chasm, it speaks from the walls, and it speaks from voices within, some chiding some soothing, like flowing water. kit and boodle Cited Rich, Adrienne. When We Dead Awaken Writing as Re-Vision,in Ways of Reading, quaternate ed., (Boston Bedford Books, 1996). Walker, Alice. In Search of Our Mothers Gardens, in Ways of Reading, 4th ed., (Boston Bedford Books, 1996).