ENGL 1F97 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Temporality, Nervous Conditions, Antiseptic

• School: Brock University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 1F97
• Professor: Susan Spearey

Document Summary

Political/individual independence: how do these questions apply to individuals, especially, how do they apply to those (cid:449)ho ha(cid:448)e(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:271)ee(cid:374) p(cid:396)i(cid:448)ileged (cid:271)(cid:455) the old s(cid:455)ste(cid:373): particularly rural africa women. What does a newly independent nation need to do differently. Education as empowering: da(cid:374)ga(cid:396)e(cid:373)(cid:271)a(cid:859)s (cid:374)o(cid:448)el e(cid:454)a(cid:373)i(cid:374)es diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)t (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)epts a(cid:374)d st(cid:396)ategies of (cid:449)o(cid:396)ki(cid:374)g to(cid:449)a(cid:396)ds. Why is it important and to whom: education reproduces dominant ideology, story of babamukuru turned into a fairy tale. Education produces compliant colonial subjects (cid:863)a p(cid:396)o(cid:373)ise (cid:449)as a pea(cid:272)eful p(cid:396)o(cid:373)ise, a(cid:374)d g(cid:396)ateful p(cid:396)o(cid:373)ise to a(cid:272)(cid:272)ept (cid:449)hate(cid:448)e(cid:396) (cid:449)as ha(cid:374)ded out to the(cid:373) a(cid:374)d to e(cid:454)pe(cid:272)t (cid:374)othi(cid:374)g (cid:373)o(cid:396)e(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:1005)(cid:1004)(cid:1010)(cid:895) (cid:862)autho(cid:396)ities thought ba(cid:271)a(cid:373)uku(cid:396)u (cid:449)as a good af(cid:396)i(cid:272)a(cid:374). Africans bred good african children who also thought about nothing except serving their (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)ities(cid:863: ta(cid:373)(cid:271)u is (cid:374)oti(cid:272)i(cid:374)g the s(cid:455)ste(cid:373)(cid:859)s (cid:373)a(cid:374)ipulatio(cid:374) [absence of dirt in new home; yet antiseptic sterility still an illusion] (70) (93, 95, 123, 183) all talk about judgemental vocabularies about what tambu is being liften from.