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The document provides reflective questions about using feminism as a literary criticism approach and discusses the autobiography Desert Flower by Waris Dirie. It asks the reader to analyze aspects of the text like characters, conflicts, and cultural aspects through a feminist lens. It also prompts generating a new title and choosing an object that represents empowered women to relate to lessons learned.

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The document provides reflective questions about using feminism as a literary criticism approach and discusses the autobiography Desert Flower by Waris Dirie. It asks the reader to analyze aspects of the text like characters, conflicts, and cultural aspects through a feminist lens. It also prompts generating a new title and choosing an object that represents empowered women to relate to lessons learned.

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Reflect on these questions in writing an analysis using the feminism approach (No need to

answer these questions on paper).

REFLECTIVE QUESTIONS:
1. How did the introduction begin?
2. How did the body develop?
3. How was the setting introduced in the body?
4. How were the characters presented in the body?
5. What content/s comprised the body?
6. How did the analysis end?

What I Can Do

Part I. Directions: Answer the following items based on what you learned about Feminism
Criticism. Write the answers on your answer sheet. (10 points)

1. Explain the feminism criticism as a reading approach.


2. Give three methods/ways in using this reading approach.
3. Present the significance of using feminism criticism in analyzing a sample 21 st Century
literary work.

Day 3

Part II. Directions: Read the autobiography Desert


Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad
by Waris Dirie and Cathleen Miller from Somalia. Read Africa and its Literature
the notes in the boxes as well.
Africa is considered as the second largest
continent in the world and also having the
oldest civilization. It boasts of products like
Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a gold and diamond, yet up to now, there are
Desert Nomad still many underdeveloped countries that
By Waris Dirie and Cathleen Miller suffer from poverty and diseases.
(For the full text, visit
Most African literature riot against
https://www.sjsu.edu/people/julie.sparks/courses/Engl-117B-
discrimination, injustice, and poverty while
spr2016/Excerpt%20from%20Desert%20Flower.pdf ) at the same time scream of their pride and
celebrate being a nation that is the land of
the oldest, the wisest, and the strongest
Waris Dirie (the name means desert flower) lives a people in the world.
double life – by day she is a famous model and UN African literature produces writers who
spokeswoman on women’s rights in Africa, at night she have made an impact in the literary world.
dreams of her native Somalia. Waris, one of the 12 These writers created a body of literature
that reflects the reality of these countries
children, was born into a traditional family of desert from a narrative, rather than a Western or
nomads in East Africa. She remembers her early colonial perspective. By articulating their
own experience of oppression and
childhood as carefree-racing camels and moving on with liberation, they were able to decolonize the
her family to the next grazing spot – until it came her African past, and place to the fore the
turn to meet the old woman who administered the Africa that they themselves have imagined
and mapped onto the world.

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ancient custom imposed on most Somalian girls: circumcision (Female Genital Mutilation).
Waris suffered this torture when she was just five years old. Then, aged 12, when her father
attempted to arrange a marriage with a 60 year old stranger in exchange for five camels –
she took flight. After an extraordinary escape through the dangerous desert she made her
way to London and worked as a maid for the Somalian ambassador until that family returned
home, Penniless and speaking little English, she became a janitor in McDonalds where she
was famously discovered by a fashion photographer, Terence Donovan. Her story is a truly
inspirational and extraordinary self-portrait of a remarkable woman whose spirit is as
breathtaking as her beauty.

About the Author About the Story

Waris Dirie (Somali: Waris Diiriye) (born Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert
1965) is a Somali model, author, actress Nomad is an autobiographical book written by Waris
and human rights activist in the fight Dirie and Cathleen Miller, published in 1998 about the
against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). life of Somali model, Waris Dirie.
From 1997 to 2003, she was a UN special
ambassador against female genital In 2009, the book was adapted into a film of the same
mutilation. In 2002 she founded her own name. Produced by Peter Herrmann and Benjamin
organization in Vienna, the Desert Flower Herrmann, the Ethiopian supermodel Liya
Foundation. Kebede plays Waris in the title role.

Check It Out!

Directions: After reading the text, answer the following questions. Write the answers on
your answer sheet. (20 points)

1. Describe the qualities/attributes of the female lead character in the story.


2. What was the conflict shown? How does the conflict affect the transformation of the lead
character in the story?
3. What aspect of African culture towards women does the story show?
4. What do you think motivated the author to share her life story? How did you respond to
the authors’ “voice”?
5. Generate a new title for the story. Explain your new title.

What I Have Learned


Represent Me!

Directions: Complete the statement below by choosing one object found in your home that
represents a strong and an empowered woman. Relate this object to the lesson learned in
this topic. Write the answers on your answer sheet. (5 points)

I chose _________ (object) to relate my learning on ________ because_____.

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