In fact, my entire name balances quite conveniently, in all of its forms: danah michele mattas beard boyd. There's something elegant about that. There's also the political. I was always bothered by the fact that the first person singular pronoun is capitalized in english - i always thought it was quite self-righteous.
Or, as Douglas Adams noted, "Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to. Why not capitalize 'we' or 'they'? Yes, i love the work of bell hooks. So, i started researching where the capitalization of said pronoun came from and was quite stunned to find that it was always capitalized because it always appeared as the first word in a sentence, never stuck in the middle.
And then, when it started appearing in the middle, it started getting capitalized out of convention and because people worried that it would get lost in script. Of course, "It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many other languages "You" is capitalized and the "i" is lower case" journalist Sydney J.
Well, we're in a digital age and the computer conveniently spaces the 'i' quite properly to make it recognizable, so i gave up on giving it such a special level of importance - it is referring to me, right?
I thought an attempt at minimalizing the individualization could start at home. But, this led me on a mental tangent - What's in a name? She argued that each identity has the ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and domination.
The book established her as a formidable critic and intellectual, and set out some of the central themes that have characterized her later work.
Hooks accepted a joint appointment in English and African American studies at Yale University in In she began teaching at Oberlin College in Ohio. In , she published Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black , which focused on the impact of white imperialist, patriarchal domination in daily life.
A passionate scholar, hooks is among the leading public intellectuals of her generation. She has published over 30 books and scholarly articles, in topics such as masculinity and patriarchy, self-help and engaged pedagogy, feminist consciousness and community creation, and representation and politics. Lara E. Starting sentence with lower-case name [bell hooks]. Thread starter prr Start date Oct 14, I am writing about the author bell hooks [sic], who obviously doesn't capitalize her name.
When I start a sentence with her last name, should it be "Hooks" or "hooks"? This is a weird situation, but I would use Hooks at the beginning of a sentence. In my opinion, the normal convention of capitalizing the first word in an English sentence outweighs that author's preference regarding how to write her name. On the other hand, bell hooks nee Watkins : Watkins wanted her pen name to be spelled in lowercase to shift the attention from her identity to her ideas.
Click to expand Last edited by a moderator: Oct 15, English - South-East England. We already have a clear convention for when the lower-case is on a prefix, such as de Gaulle or van Gogh: De Gaulle said. Van Gogh painted. However, increasingly many companies style themselves with lower-case beginnings, such as adidas, easyJet, and thyssenkrupp, and they usually consistently use lower-case in their own material: thyssenkrupp is the world market leader for.
The highly unusual for now example of a lower-case main personal name could go either way, but as 'hooks' is much less distinctive than a company name, it would be clearer to mark the beginning of a sentence with a capital. OK I'll go ahead and capitalize the last name when it starts a sentence.
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