Themes Jacqueline Woodson

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1 themes

1.1 gender
1.2 african-american society , history
1.3 economic status
1.4 sexual identity





themes

some reviewers have labeled woodson s writings issue-related , believes books address universal questions. has tackled subjects not commonly discussed when books published, including interracial couples, teenage pregnancy , homosexuality. sympathetic characters put realistic situations. woodson states interests lie in exploring many different perspectives through writings, not in forcing views onto others.


woodson has several themes appear in many of novels. explores issues of gender, class , race family , history. known using these common themes in ground-breaking ways. while many of characters given labels make them invisible society, woodson writing search self rather search equality or social justice.


gender

only notebooks of melanin sun, miracle s boys , locomotion written male perspective. rest of woodson s works feature female narrators. however, 2009 short story trev , published in how beautiful ordinary: twelve stories of identity, features transgender male narrator.


african-american society , history

in 2003 novel, coming on home soon, explores both race , gender within historical context of world war ii.


the other side poetic @ race through 2 young girls, 1 black , 1 white, sit on either side of fence separates worlds.


in november 2014, daniel handler, master of ceremonies @ national book awards, made joke watermelons when woodson received award. in new york times op-ed published shortly thereafter, pain of watermelon joke, woodson explained in making light of deep , troubled history joke, daniel handler had come place of ignorance. underscored need mission give people sense of country s brilliant , brutal history, no 1 ever thinks can walk onto stage 1 evening , laugh @ s painful past.


economic status

the dear 1 notable in deals differences between rich , poor within black community.


sexual identity

the house pass on way novel touches on gay identity through main characters of staggerlee.



in dear 1 woodson introduces committed lesbian relationship between marion , bernadette. contrasts broken straight family results in teenager harlem named rebecca moving in them , twelve-year-old daughter, feni.








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