Marxist Literary Criticism
It considers material possessions and physical comfort as more important than spiritual values.
Materialism
No person has a single, easily stated, unitary identity.
intersectionality
theory shines a light on social problems, trends, and issues that are otherwise overlooked or misidentified by the historically dominant male perspective society.
feminist theory
a work of narrative prose
short story
It teaches that literature must be understood in relation to historical and social reality as interpreted from a Marxist standpoint.
Marxist Criticism
Color-blind, or “formal,” conceptions of equality, expressed in rules that insist only on treatment that is the same across the board, can thus remedy only the most blatant forms of discrimination
Ordinariness
Who usually holds and wields power in a patriarchal society?
male
describe where and when the story happen
setting
It refers to worker’s uprising
Worker’s Revolt
Minority status, in other words, brings with it a presumed competence to speak about race and racism.
The unique voice of color
concern with the impact of gender on reading and writing.
feminist literary theory
the events that takes place in the story
plot
A hierarchical society in which social classes have been abolished
Classless Society
a theoretical and informational mode that examines the appearance of race and racism across central cultural modes of expression.
Critical Race Theory, or CRT
types of stereotypes " femme fatale"
negative archetypes
the turning point, the most intense moment
climax
The struggle for political and economic power carried on between capitalists and workers
Class Struggle
Racism advances the interests of both white elites (materially) and working-class whites (psychically), large segments of society have little encouragement to eliminate it.
Interest convergence
English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device
Virginia Woolf
problem with force of nature
character vs. nature