ENGL 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Jhumpa Lahiri, Pierre Bourdieu, Dalhousie University
13 Aug 2016
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Imagined communities (anderson: connected through media, nation. Habitus (pierre bourdieu: forget you learn it but cannot forget it. Like a bike: ways we learn about a nation. Does not like deborah or neighbour: likes that prunab needs her, deborah thinks of her like a mother. Said that she could leave the united states and go back home if she wanted to: habit replaces love, tolerate, fond. Hell-heaven: usually say heaven-hell so the english is backwards. Language confusion during translation when the mother learns english: was good before and now bad (prunab) this is backwards. Apurna defends prunab to his parents: maintain friendship of friendship, reject bengali culture, reject him since she cannot be together she must move on, never see if she mothers her husband. Maybe does not have romantic love towards him but loves her husbands like how she loves usha. Good advice is rarer than rubies by salman rushdie. Beauty has power: she gets what she wants.
