ENGL 2Q99 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dionne Brand, Intersectionality, Melanin
20 Jan 2017
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Helpful reading: nasar meer key concepts in race and ethnicity. Elizette and verilla"s kids grow up, histories are speerate they didn"t know eachother early on. Elizette adela, the women who was enslaved who came over on a ship that haunts much of the novel. Its implied that elizette is a reincarnation of her, shes her great great great grandmother. Isaih, the man she was given to, either sold to or given to, she has the power to escape but he has the power to hunt her down. Verilla different than her family, she has a lover in toronto, she is in a relationship with elizette later on. Verilla dies and elizette goes to toronto to try and learn a bit more about her and make some sense of what has happened. The place they live in is never named. Verilla thoughts on canada think about activist background aunt and uncle.
