Womens Literary Expression in America
Women's Literary Expression in America Women offer a needed different perspective from men's writing. Women authors offer a voice for women that couldn't be heard for many years. Specific authors like Sylvia Plath and Toni Morrison are more modern authors. Plath was a leader in the 1950's and paved the way for the women's liberal movement of the 1960's. She spoke bluntly and openly about her depression, contempt for her father and husband, and attempted suicides. Toni Morrison is a strong African American voice. Not only does she speak positively for women in general, but also she can speak specifically to black women. There are certainly themes to women's writing throughout the changing years. Gilman and fellow authors of her time discussed the so-called "nervous condition" that was labeled on women frequently in the late 1800's and early 1900's. In the 1950's Sylvia Path was an honest voice for her generation that was rare. When women were first able to start printing their own literature, they wrote about what they knew. The mostly knew about domestic things such as having babies and life on the farm. A strange amount of female authors suffered from, what they called at the time, the nervous condition. Edit
In the 1950's, the nuclear, isolated family became the norm. As opposed to others, where the black people live in the south. In Elaine Showalter's words "the yellow wall paper is a haunting and passionate protest against the rest cure. Instead of acknowledging the depression, and treating it, they said that all women were prone to nervousness. She would have been a great psychologist, had she survived and been treated for her depression. She paved the way in the 1950's for the women's liberal movement because girls read her work that is so honest and holds nothing back and they could relate to it. The particular theme among these authors is depression and a break in social norms. h Wharton, in 1899, was recovering from her nervous condition. She spoke very thought-provokingly. Apparently they had discussed it together when they were younger, and Sexton was under the impression that they weren't going to do it. The women were probably depressed because they were bored. She wrote about memories from her childhood and found writing very challenging.
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