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    The document provides an overview and analysis of Sapphire's 1996 novel Push. It summarizes the key elements and narrative structure of the novel, including that it is presented as a series of letters that chronicle the life of Claireece "Precious" Jones, an illiterate African American teen who is abused by her family. The summary also notes the novel incorporates influences from confession literature, epistolary novels, and intertextual references to cultural works and events from the Harlem Renaissance. Criticism of the novel discusses how it serves as a response to the representation of black women in discussions around HIV/AIDS and incorporates elements of different literary genres.

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    The document provides an overview and analysis of Sapphire's 1996 novel Push. It summarizes the key elements and narrative structure of the novel, including that it is presented as a series of letters that chronicle the life of Claireece "Precious" Jones, an illiterate African American teen who is abused by her family. The summary also notes the novel incorporates influences from confession literature, epistolary novels, and intertextual references to cultural works and events from the Harlem Renaissance. Criticism of the novel discusses how it serves as a response to the representation of black women in discussions around HIV/AIDS and incorporates elements of different literary genres.

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    SAPPHIRE

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    LITERATURA

    III
    Sapphire’s Push
    pUSH
    -press against something with steady force
    in or as if in order to impel

    - press forward energetically against


    opposition

    - exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or


    obtrusively to gain an end
    Bildungsroman
    1883
    1999
    1847

    1763

    1998 1983 1850


    -Bildung = development of the self through
    knowledge

    -Story of a young person learning their way

    -Educative journey of the hero

    - Suppressed narrative of marginalized


    groups
    Deconstruction of
    the Self
    Abuse
    Social Welfare
    Contract Construct

    Love/Care Reversed
    material support

    Loving Unloving
    The form of the
    novel
    (I)
    NARRATIVE SCHEME

    [
    CN CF > A ]
    CONFESSIONAL LITERATURE
    Intimacy
    Introspection
    Revelation
    Extreme accounts
    Development of attitudes to life
    The form of the
    novel
    (II)
    Structure
    1. Dedication
    2. Acknowledgments
    3. Epigraphic poems
    4. Four chapters
    5. Life Stories (Class Book)
    Dedication – Acknowledgments
    Professors
    Writers
    Literary agents
    Social workers
    Feminists
    Art centers
    NPOs
    Epigraph
    Wordsworth’s fragment from
    a poem in Lyrical Ballads, 1798

    pride
    littleness True knowledge
    contempt leads to love
    (conceit)
    scorn
    Epigraph
    Quote from
    The Talmud, AD 200-500

    Every blade of grass has its Angel


    that bends over it and whispers,
    “Grow, grow.”
    Life Stories
    The form of the
    novel
    (III)
    EPISTOLARY
    NOVEL
    •The first English novel
    •Written entirely in letter
    form
    •Samuel Richardson’s
    Pamela (1740)
    EPISTOLARY
    TRADITION

    1897

    2003
    1996 1982

    1974
    EPISTOLARY INFLUENCES

    • JOURNALS
    • SCATTERED LETTERS
    • NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
    • DIARIES…
    "I" CHARACTER-BOUND FOCALIZATION
    GREATER DEGREE OF INTIMACY
    RELATED TO THE CONFESSIONAL
    Intertextuality
    Intertexts
    1. Louis Farrakhan
    2. The Harlem Renaissance
    3. Various cultural references
    4. Cultural products
    Criticism
    ‘Push emerges as a watershed moment, a strategic
    response ‘both to silences within African American
    cultures on HIV and to the predominant racist and
    gendered ideologies of AIDS used to construct black
    women.’(Hogan, 2001)

    ‘Push integrates themes and patterns of the American


    Dream narrative, the rags-to-riches story, the slave
    narrative, and also elements of the Bildungsroman
    and thus has primarily been read as a success
    narrative despite the novel's conscious and drastic
    limitation of success. (Müller, 2013)

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