Cheryl A. Wall (1948–2020)
Autor de Sweat
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Créditos de la imagen: Rutgers
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1948-10-29
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2020-04-04
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Manhattan, New York, New York, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Highland Park, New Jersey, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- asthma
- Lugares de residencia
- Jamaica, Queens, New York
Highland Park, New Jersey - Educación
- Harvard University (PhD)
Howard University (BA) - Ocupaciones
- scholar of English literature
scholar of African-American Studies
university professor - Organizaciones
- Rutgers University
Rutgers English Diversity Institute
Crossroads Theater Company (New Jersey)
Rutgers Institute for Women's Leadership
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A powerful story about a woman living with an abusive husband. They survive by her sweat, and he resents her for it. When he brings a snake into the house, she has to confront an additional fear that is even more powerful than the man that beats her. The story is strong with images. You can see, hear, smell, and feel the story. A story about surviving as a black woman, powerless to control your own destiny, until fate delivers your destiny into your hands.
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The story is characterized by the couple’s “black dialect”, being written as they actually talk. This makes the text less easy to read but on the other hand renders the dialogue more authentic.
Sykes is a violent man who beats his wife brutally. Sykes likes fat women and Delia is skinny, He is running around with a big woman called Bertha.
Delia is scared of snakes so Sykes brings a huge rattle snake home in a box.
Delia tells Sykes that she hates him as much as she once loved him. She hates him like a “suck-egg dog”.
Sykes now insults her appearance and tells her he has hated her for years.
A day or two later, while doing her laundry, Delia finds the snake in the laundry basket. She runs away and hides in the hay barn.
It is dark and there is only one match left. Sykes has been out and now returns and Delia hears the snake whirring; her husband is fighting with it.
In the morning, she hears Sykes calling “Delia, Delia”, but she cannot move.
He is on his hands and knees, and has a horribly swollen neck.
She feels pity but there is not time to make it to the doctor’s.
We don’t know exactly what has happened, but can understand that the end is nigh for Sykes: justice has been served.… (más)