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Everyday use
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With her story, "Everyday Use," Alice Walker is saying that art should be a living, breathing part of the culture it arose from, rather than a frozen timepiece to be observed from a distance. ... Dee argues that Maggie is "backward enough to put them to everyday use. ... Art, in order to be kept alive, must be put to "Everyday Use" -- literally in the case of the quilts, figuratively in the case of conventional art. ... Her story itself is a good example: Walker didnt write it to be observed under a glass case, judged aesthetically, and sold to the highest bidder; she meant it to be questioned, to be explored, to be debated -- in short, to be put to "Everyday Use.
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Title: Everyday use
Words: 470
Rating: None
Pages: 1.9
submitted by: junklook
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