NUTR 431D2 Lecture 25: Jan 28.docx
Document Summary
Surfacing margaret attwood: water symbolism, surfacing, motifs on the womb and motherhood, idea of her submerged consciousness, secretive character, in order to protect people, broader implications to keep things under wraps. Binary that privileges the human over the animal. His likeness to animals allows for his redemption: blunt profile of a buffalo, very seemingly withdrawn. In one of those restaurants before i was born germans shot our feet off. : long sentences, ungrammatically strung together with commas. Something puzzle like she assembles these fragments of information. She is not regulating the flow of information. She is not the one in control of how the narrative is being pieced out: story before she was born. How family narratives are shaped and passed down. She could see things before she was born- later belief. Making a case for this knowledge of events. Question of whether we accept her claim. Reminds us of roots in space and time.
