ENGL 297 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne, Intertextuality, Postcolonialism
3 Sep 2018
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Throughout the course, we"ve seen different moments of violence and. Temporal disjuncture, but the past and the present being yolked together. The magical irrealist tries to show this contradictory nature of the social different kinds of violence formation at the level of the aesthetic. The ghost in goopy gyne bagha byne (ggbb) provokes the coming into being of a figure, and eventually, a subgenre (the ghost story) Seen as iconic to the postcolonial literary cannon. Most important work for postcolonialism is midnight children: crafting a story for his child, similarity in haroun. Prime example of intertextuality: way of referencing other texts as you write. The title refers to classics, katha sarit sagar (sanskrit text, meaning ocean of stories), and arabian nights (through the figure of haroun, who is the figure in arabian nights) We saw this in draupadi, where the name refers to a female figure in the. You cannot read one figure without thinking about the classical connotation.
