ENGL 297 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mikhail Bakhtin, Anti-Imperialism
3 Sep 2018
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What is literary studies about: unmediated window to the world he was writing about/was in. Parodic use of form, as we see in cesaire"s dialogue. He"s coming from nigeria and decided to write a novel in english. He"s explained that he"s trying to reclaim africa as a space of humanity, He takes up the novel as a vehicle of writing back to the metropole. Resisting dominant trend or not which has been abandoned. Gyorgy lukacs: will talk about the novel as a bourgeois epic, a world that has been abandoned by god. Content: ideas: what is being said; how; why. Style: the way content and form work together, form is segmented content. How is meaning made: black is beautiful, (cid:498)black(cid:499) is beautiful, black is (cid:498)beautiful(cid:499, black is beautiful, will be very different said in the time of slavery than the time of barack obama. Situated perspective what does it feel like for the person who gets.
