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and dry leaves –a sound you would not believe
unless you’ve held your breath and heard it.’’ From “Snow,’’ by Elizabeth Tibbetts, a nurse and a Maine poet
“If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.’’ P.D. James (1920-2014), English detective novelist famous for her acute knowledge of human behavior and motivation and her sense of place.
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While driving on Route 95 early on Feb. 9, I was struck by the grayness of the sky and the salted road, the off-white of the snow on the roadsides and the lack of primary colors, except for some cars. February would be the year’s nadir except that it’s close to early spring. I wonder if St. Valentine’s Day is so popular because it features the primary color red, offsetting for a day the grim gray.
An illuminating comparison of Ann Petry s
The Street and Gwendolyn Brooks s
Maud Martha with Cynthia Kadohata s
The Floating World and Chang-rae Lee s
Native Speaker by You-me Park and Gayle Wald ( Native Daughters in the Promised Land: Gender, Race, and the Question of Separate Spheres,
AL 70: 607-33) establishes the extent to which minority literature represents the boundaries between public and private spheres in the United States and how these boundaries reinforce and overlap class and gender lines. The critics conclusion is that both the African American and Asian American groups are feminized (in the sense of being marked under the sign of the feminine).