ENGL 1F97 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, Louis Althusser
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Education also serves as ideological state apparatus serves to reproduce dominant ideology (althusser) story of babamukuru (19) produces compliant colonial subjects (106, 107) Whites were indulgent towards promising young black boys in those days, provided that the promise was a peaceful promise, a grateful promise to accept whatever was handed them and not to expect more (106). The authorities thought babamukuru was a good african. And it was generally believed that good africans bred good african children who also thought about nothing but serving their communities (107) Narrator older, more analytical ( i feel many things these days, much more than i was able to feel in the days when i was young and my brother died") Searches for different meanings as she looks back over her life than she understood as she was going through her experiences. It"s not england any more and i ought to adjust.