ENGL219 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: A Visit From The Goon Squad, Stella Prize, Metafiction
23 Aug 2018
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There are two distinct processes by which it does this. The first, the abrogation or denial of the privilege of english involves a rejection of the metropolitan power over the means of communication. And it is the outsider, like coetzee, who is more interested in constructing tradition, since his own relation to it has to be constructed, not assumed. The persistent critique of what one must inhabit spivak. Ondaatji wants to literally inhabit texts in a way that attains a critical ambivalence. Ways to explain ondaajti in reference to this. Intimacy and familiarity that this allows is exemplary. Stages a middlebrow discourse critical inhabiting within multiple sites of textuality and values. Always from the position of an outsider. But in australian literature, this has a history of its own the underrepresentation of women is real, and has continued over time.
