{"id":346,"date":"2016-10-30T21:42:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T01:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/?p=346"},"modified":"2016-10-30T21:42:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T01:42:46","slug":"obstacle-vs-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/2016\/10\/30\/obstacle-vs-danger\/","title":{"rendered":"Obstacle vs. Danger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Angels in America<\/em> overtly creates a story of identities that are hidden, identities that are shamed, and identities that are longing for a truth in life. Kushner has the ability to let the reader see anguish, but also see happiness, in a plague that never had a happy ending. Gloria Anzald\u00faa, in her piece, Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd<\/sup> World Women Writers<\/em>, writes about the oppression and the lack of notice that lesbian women of color writers, have to endure in order to be seen as a legitimate writer. In her piece she writes, \u201cWe don\u2019t have as much to lose \u2013 we never had any privileges. I wanted to call the dangers \u201cobstacles\u201d but that would be a kind of lying. We can\u2019t transcend <\/em>the dangers, can\u2019t rise above them. We must go through them and hope we won\u2019t have to repeat the performance\u201d (Anzald\u00faa, 1). The \u201cdangers\u201d for Anzalud\u00faa are a voice for the lesbian women of color and the \u201cdangers\u201d for Kushner is the AIDS crisis. I want to make the claim that Anzald\u00faa\u2019s quote correlates with Angels <\/em>insofar as to say that those \u201cdangers\u201d are the epicenter of both stories. Anzald\u00faa says that these people have \u201cnever had any privileges\u201d (Anzald\u00faa, 1), but it\u2019s in the way that they go through those \u201cdangers\u201d that makes the intersectionality\u2019s of these marginalized people similar. However, although these people are going through these \u201cdangers,\u201d there is a dissimilar aspect that has to be acknowledged. One group are seen and the other group is not; the ones that are seen, however, are not being acknowledged. Anzald\u00faa argues that the lesbian women of color are not even seen or acknowledged. Therefore, their voices are not even being heard or respected because they are such a unheard group. The AIDS crisis was acknowledged but it took a few years for people in power to realize that this epidemic was killing at a rapid rate. Even in the case with Prior and Louis, Louis knows that Prior is dying but can\u2019t bring himself to stay with him. Joe\u2019s mother, Hannah, knows that her son is gay but refuses to acknowledge, as she still thinks he has the ability to change. The characters in Angels <\/em>have \u201cobstacles\u201d however they are still having to \u201crepeat the performance,\u201d they are still having to relive pain, and relive oppression. They are forever not being able to \u201crise above.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Angels in America overtly creates a story of identities that are hidden, identities that are shamed, and identities that are longing for a truth in life. Kushner has the ability to let the reader see anguish, but also see happiness, in a plague that never had a happy ending. Gloria Anzald\u00faa, in her piece, Speaking … Continue reading Obstacle vs. Danger<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3014,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3014"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}