Question.1034 - What role do race, caste, and social class play in the supplemental text? How might you compare this to the role it plays in the supplemental readings?
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The content of the reading presents problems associated with the struggle for life related to race, caste, and social class. Handling realistic narratives, Judith Ortiz Cofer has held breaking stereotypes while presenting the ground realities of the victims of the people living in the regimes of class struggle and racial discrimination. In the autobiography “Left to Tell,” Ilibagiza presents the horrors of the caste system that the Tutsi tribe tolerated. She narrates the extent to which the people of the Tutsi community fall to the target of murder and later to the vulnerabilities of the holocaust. Ilibagiza describes her most horrifying experiences through personal narratives of drawing complex realities she encountered with her struggle to save her life and rely on her salvation towards faith in God. The most significant part of “Left to Tell’ as a personal narrative emphasizes the scenario where along with five other girls, she gets hidden inside a bathroom by a pastor during a massacre to get protected. Ilibagiza had explained her situation with narrative pursuits that enfolded socio-emotional aspects with her ultimate seek of faith in God (Strickland). “Civilize Them with a Stick” presented the lethargy and negligence of the bureaucrats engaging in the hypocrisy of administration and unfair, racist control. Force-feeding cultural transformation in terms of violence and racial discrimination has been prevalent in many colonized places. Mary Crow Dow emphasizes the suffering of racially dominated students put to the horrors of cultural hypnosis to undergo cultural submissiveness. The leading cause of racial domination is the lack of unity towards insurrection among the victims of racial discrimination, which made the colonizers take advantage of rationalizing their abuse of power and unfair suppression against the victims of the caste system. Reference: Strickland, Eleanor G. "Surviving a Bloodbath: Immaculée Ilibagiza’s Life during the Rwandan Genocide." Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History 13.1 (2023): 96-101.More Articles From Literature
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