Paper No. - 10 “Design” – Deconstructing the idea of “Whiteness”
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Hiteshbhai C. Parmar• Topic :- ‘Design’ – Deconstructing the
idea of “Whiteness.”• Paper Name :- The American Literature• Paper No. :- 10• P.G. Enrollment No. :- PG13101024• Roll No. :- 09• Semester :- 03• Year :- 2014 – 2015• Date :- 02/10/2014
Submitted toSmt. S.B. Gardi Department of English,
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar.
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Design- Robert Frost
• I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
• On a white heal-all, holding up a moth
• Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth—
• Assorted characters of death and blight
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Design- Robert Frost
• Mixed ready to begin the morning right,
• Like the ingredients of a witches’ broth—
• A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,
• And dead wings carried like a paper kite.
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Design- Robert Frost
• What had that flower to do with being white,
• The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?
• What brought the kindred spider to that height,
• Then steered the white moth thither in the night?
• What but design of darkness to appall?- -
• If design govern in a thing so small.
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• Frost concludes that if it were "design" that brought these three together, it must be some pretty dark design.
• The reader is left with just as many questions as Frost. This short poem takes a simple little thought and pushes us all the way to questioning the very nature of creation and life as we know it.
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• "What but design of darkness to appall? -- / If design govern in a thing so small." In the horrible but inevitable logic of "Design" Frost replaces God's design with the artist's.
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Deconstructing the concept of “Whiteness”
Critical Whiteness Studies, one could say, exist since the first encounter of the European colonizer and the non-European colonized. Turned into an academic discipline only in the mid- 90´s, they could be described as the collection of knowledge that NON-WHITES have gained and cultivated about WHITES throughout the centuries.
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“Whiteness”
• analyzing "race" as a social category after the postcolonial studies` attempt, is analyzes the construction of the Self.
• i.e. the construction of the one that is actually looking at the Other.
(perspective of white people)
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Here, White portrayed as a Good.
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Here, Black portrayed as a evil.
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Why did the killing take place on a white...
Poem•Dimpled spider.•A white heal-all.•Kite’ and ‘a paper kite’.
Symbolized•appears charming tone of pleasant.•Purity and safety.•Is another image of death-like rigidity.
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• White is something good, Spiritual.
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• Black is something Evil, terrible, immortal.
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“Whiteness”
“History written by victorious people(winners).…..”
• Just because white people were in Superior they portrayed white as a Virtue.
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Why ?
According to brain….
Brain is the most important part of the body….
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“Whiteness”
• Moral words were printed in white and immoral words in black. Just as we unthinkingly—almost unconsciously—“know” a lemon is yellow.
• we instantly know that sin and crime are black and that grace and virtue are white.
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Conclusion
o Till today we have seen that white is a virtue, superior and now we can say that there is no possibilities that white is always good.
o Now reality is different that white will be good or not, but our mind is conditioned in such direction that white is superior.
o So change our mindset and think out of the box.
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