16a; brainstorming for paper 2
November 8, 2009
What do I want to write paper 2 about? I don’t know. Frankly, I don’t want to write it at all. I haven’t an idea besides the blatantly obvious ones- love, rape, sex, mostly love.. If I am aiming for a topic that no one else has, my work cannot be defined by the connections I did not make that other papers on the same topic did make. Looking back through my blog, I wrote a lot about Beli. At one point, I pointed out “A theme of mothers and daughters fighting all of the time and essentially hating each other an insane amount. A daughter’s feeling that she needs to rebel. However, each daughter still houses a deep love for their mother. “
Numero dos on the paper assignment description, “the way a particular family relationship is affected by exterior forces (politics, history, laws, cultural assumptions, etc.)” has caught my eye. I may talk about the perceived role of women in Dominican culture and how both Beli and Lola rebel against this. I may talk about mother daughter relationships in the culture. I’m not quite sure. I’ll let you know when Tuesday comes around and I have a spare moment to work on it.
I’ve been thinking about this, though: if men in the Dominican culture are supposed to be badass irresistible hotties, why are the women considered putas for sleeping with them??
Now this is all I’ve got. I stupidly dogeared the pages of Oscar Wao that contained things I liked or connections I made. Where was my pen? Where were my post-its? Now I have to go back through and investigate. One more thing to add to my to do list, litterally. Goooooood.
