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rendered. impotent. naive. “The Meanings of a Word” by Gloria Naylor. Language is the subject. It is the written form with which I’ve managed to keep the wolf away from the door and, in diaries, to keep my sanity. In spite of this, I consider the written word inferior to the spoken, and much of the frustration experienced by novelists is ...
In her essay, “The Meanings of a Word”, Gloria Naylor explores the various meanings of the controversial word “nigger” and the context that it creates. She reflects on the first time she ever heard the word, when she was in third-grade and a boy behind her yelled it out after noticing that she had received a better grade than him on a ...
384 Words2 Pages. “A Word’s Meaning” was written by author and professor Gloria Naylor to educate others about how and why a word can come to have different interpretations. Naylor gives examples of the various spoken meanings of the word “nigger” to support her claim. She describes different situations in her life where the word was ...
According to Naylor, the “written word [is] inferior to the spoken,” which uses the “sight, sound, smell and touch” (232) of the moment. To exemplify how the same word can have different. meanings, she describes the moment when she became aware of the word “nigger.”. When a boy.
Naylor was born on January 25th, 1950 in New York City, the eldest of Roosevelt and Alberta McAlpin Naylor’s three daughters. Raised in New York City (the Bronx, Harlem, and Queens), Naylor graduated from high school in 1968. She was baptized as a Jehovah’s Witness that same year and did missionary work first in New York City and later in ...
Mar 4, 2007 · A woman could never be a “nigger” in the singular, with its connotations of confirming worth. The noun girl was its closest equivalent in that sense, but only when used in direct address and regardless of the gender doing the addressing. Girl was a token of respect for a woman. The one-syllable word was drawn out to sound like three in ...
