Understanding Morrison's "Recitatif"
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MLA citation: Balcarcel, Rebecca. "Understanding Morrison's 'Recitatif'." Online video clip. Sixminutescholar. CZcams, 18 Aug. 2013. Web. DayMonthYearYouWatchedTheVideo.
Leading a discussion in class on this story today. This was super helpful! Thanks
I'm glad. :-) Thanks for watching!
As a foreigner, I could get something important from this clip!! It's super clear! I also LOVE the way you explain this story. Thanks :-)
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This is what I needed, thank you!
This was so very helpful- I had to read this for my american lit class and had a hard time thinking through all of these things. Thanks for sharing!!
Thanks for your sharing this!!! This video deals with some of my questions popping up in my brain when and after reading the story!!!
I watched this because I recently read this again for fun. Great refresher, thanks.
Great ideas about the orchard. I've taught the story many times and hadn't come to that conclusion.
Very excellent analysis ma'am! I was intrigued as to what the Orchard might represent. Thank you for sharing. :)
Thank you for this! I'm teaching this story tomorrow at Arizona State and this was very helpful for analysis to share with my students. Thanks again!
Oh, good! Hope the class was excellent!
thank you!
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thank you for your delightful analysis.
great analysis Rebecca !!!
This was incredible!! Thank you!
I have no idea about racial stereotypes in the US, or just in particular. So this video was very helpful to understand the hits and discussion about race in the short story. Thank you
thank you so much for all your analysis
Very helpful! Plus, pleasant to listen to :)
Good idea! Such a rich, complex story. Will do soon!
Hi Rebecca. Thanks for your thoughtful analysis. I've just read "Recitatif," and it's amazing how race is both present and absent in the story. Clearly, Morrison has scrubbed the story of all racial indicators. And yet, It's amazing how much we want race (or the indicators of race) to be there. We want that bizarre comfort that comes with racial stereotypes. I thought there were a few "having fun with the reader" lines such as: ""Things are not right. The wrong food is always with the wrong people." I think I agree that the story is about the deep shared trauma of these two girls and why they had those feelings and desires to hurt Maggie. Plus, there is the interesting question of memory at play too. Thanks for you analysis.
Hi, can you please do a video about metamorphosis by franz Kafka. Thanks.
thank you for helping me understand this story
You're welcome!
I think Twyla and Roberta killed Maggie. As I was doing a close reading for class I noticed how Twla mentions killing someone 5 times the first 5 pages. Twla mentions killing 7 times throughout the story. “If Roberta had laughed I would have killed her,”
When referring to Roberta’s skill in the game “she was a killer” “but what is somebody tries to kill her?” When referring to her mom calling her Twla baby “I could have killed her” and in the chapel “she needed to be killed.” “I could have killed her” when her mother didn’t bring lunch. When Twyla ran into Robert at the grocery store “she was dressed to kill.” Near the end when describing the road a little before bumping in Roberta again Twyla says “the streets could be murder at the beginning of snowfall.” Thus explaining the ending “What the hell happened to Maggie?” Indeed
This was definitely on my mind when I read the last line... She totally blocked out even wanting to hurt Maggie, but there's the possibility that they actually brutalized her themselves, or worse. So much scarier when you read it with this idea in mind.
That video will help me to participate in the next week's literature course actively :) A big thank you for this! Deductions were great.
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Mmmm. You need to write about a novel? Can you choose any novel from any time and place? Some great contemporary American novels include ALL THE PRETTY HORSES, THE LIFE OF PI, and THE KITE RUNNER. Then there are Hemingway novels, such as FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS. You might like Amy Tan novels such as THE JOY LUCK CLUB. HOW THE GARCIA GIRLS LOST THEIR ACCENT is another good one. I really like THE THINGS THEY CARRIED, about the Vietnam War experience. Thousands of amazing novels out there!
Great analysis. Thank you!
Thank you for this. ❤
great analysis!!
Thank you for helping me pass my class lol
Special thanks to you. I think I will be working on a comparison between American writer and British one as my supervisor advised.
Sorry that I was away, but as you know working on my thesis taking me away, However, I cannot open youtube unless I take a look at your new video. best of luck to you.
Beautiful analysis, Thank you so much!
You're welcome!
Nice always enjoy your videos.
thanks fanslastic job. keep it up. nice house. i like it
this was very helpful, thank you
Very detailed discussion
Thank You so much!
Brilliant analysis!
Gabrielle Nixon Aww, thanks!
excellent video. you should start a book club. love to hear your perspective
Rainey Fox Thanks! I've been busy writing a novel for middle-graders, but a book club would be fun!
Very helpful! Thank you!
thank you for sharing this
so helpful:)
thank you! :D very helpful !!
Thank you so much.
Supre helpful video! Thx!
Well-explained!!!
thank you
thank you very helpful
Saved. My. Ass. Thank you
Awesome. I was lost in the story. You helped alot
Thank u
I asked a French instructor and she said racitatif meant short story
Thank you! Very insightful.
Thanks from Russia. Really helpful!
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My teacher pronounces it Recess-atif and it makes me so mad. Anyway, great video
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It is about disability, but also about race and also about class. It is an intersectional story and it is very connected to Sula and the guilt of the girls in that book after the murder of the child Chicken Little, only this is about a white and a Black girl. I like your analysis but I am afraid you are projecting that it is not about race. It is very interesting that Roberta saw Maggie as Black and Twyla didn't: they both identified with Maggie. Twyla had the privilege to not really think about Maggie's race - like to me you do whilst repeating that the story is not about race....
The rest of the analysis is nice and deep. Thanks for that.
YES.
Sooooo...basically if your not someone who thinks about race you wont understand most of this?
Nah I’m very racially conscious and I still don’t understand it lol
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