WOMENST 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Essentialism, Heterosexuality

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WOMENST 1AA3
• Professor: Kascindra Shewan

Document Summary

Knowledge as experience the danger of one story . The danger of the constant representation of a group within a fixed framework. The media representation of predominantly white culture from the perspective of minorities. Impressionability of stories to children and their constant exposure to colonial literature. Lack of media representation of minority groups which thereby marginalizes those that are not white. Literature: the discovery of african stories challenged the single story norms . The common misconception that minority groups are segregated, oppressed and perpetuated by the media marginalized- single story of africans that produced pitty and patronization. Dehumanizes and degrades minorities through essentialist representation through the media as primitive, exotic and savage. The emergence of misrepresentation of africans through western discourses. The notion of african authenticity - africans that are not starving, are middle class and well-educated are not truly authentic .