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On\u00a0Thursday, the GEA will be hosting our\u00a0second works-in-progress workshop.\u00a0Lindsay Bartkowski will be presenting a conference length paper entitled \u201cSilence and Violence in Tillie Olsen\u2019s\u00a0Yonnodio: From the Thirties<\/em>.\u201d If you plan to attend this meeting, please\u00a0email a request for the paper to templeGEA@gmail.com<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Lindsay has provided the following abstract of her paper:<\/p>\n

\u201cSilence and Violence in Tillie Olsen\u2019s\u00a0Yonnondio: From the Thirties\u201d<\/p>\n

Tillie Olsen\u2019s\u00a0Yonnondio: From the Thirties\u00a0offers an impressionistic representation of poverty in a town \u201clike Omaha\u201d from the perspective of Mazie Holbrook, a fragile, wide-eyed adolescent. Mazie\u2019s story oscillates between moments of isolation, characterized by profound introspection about that which she is \u201ca-knowen\u201d and that which she cannot understand, and interactions with the adult world that are almost exclusively described in terms of the grotesque. Bodies, both her own and those in the world around her, become sites of violence and pain. Bodies are frustrated, suffering containers that hold the unknowable and inexpressible. Olsen writes that \u201cSorrow is tongueless. Apprehension tore it out long ago\u201d (30). This paper will reflect on the inability of language to express and explain suffering in Yonnondio and explore Olsen\u2019s tentative and slippery representations of the ineffable. My paper will further consider the absence of adequate modes of self-expression, such as art and literature, in the world of the Holbrooks and how this absence forecloses the possibility of communion between the family members and induces instead painful isolation. My paper will examine chiefly the mind-body dichotomy through which Mazie sees the world, as well as the particularly oppressive nature of the feminine body as represented in Mazie\u2019s mother, the ever-pregnant, unhappy, and crazed Anna Holbrook. It is my contention that the style of Olsen\u2019s novel explodes narrative form in order to show the limiting and limited nature of closed systems of meaning as such. Her political concerns, as well as her feminist ethics, shape Olsen\u2019s Yonnondio and create a haunting, untouchable anti-narrative that only begins to tell the story of a family like the Holbrooks in a coal mining town like Omaha.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The purpose of these sessions is to provide Temple English graduate students an informal opportunity to present their works in progress, using feedback from fellow students and faculty to develop their essays and continuing research.\u00a0The GEA anticipates having several WIP events throughout the semester. If you are interested in presenting a paper, please contact\u00a0Megan Holmberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On\u00a0Thursday, the GEA will be hosting our\u00a0second works-in-progress workshop.\u00a0Lindsay Bartkowski will be presenting a conference length paper entitled \u201cSilence and Violence in Tillie Olsen\u2019s\u00a0Yonnodio: From the Thirties.\u201d If you plan … Continue reading Works-In-Progress workshop<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1417,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[13],"class_list":["post-860","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-gradenglishevents","cat_gradenglishevents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/gradenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}