Question

explain what semplica girls are

Answer 1

‘Semplica girls’ is an allegorical reference to the characters in a novel titled “ The Semplica girls diaries” by the American author George Saunders. Semplica girls represent immigrnat lowerclass women who are appropriated as commodities by an American farmer family where the patriarch of the house buys an installation of several “semplica-girls,” basically imported young woman strung up on wires as decoration for his lawn. The Semplica girls is thus used as the metaphor for the dehumanisation of immigrnat labour in the contemporary global society where instances of human trafficking (of young women in this case) are normalised as everyday economic phenomenon.