ENGLISH 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mind Control, Nadine Gordimer, The Knock

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15 Feb 2017
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July"s people: when one kind (race) of people is serving another in a power relationship, political novel. The knock on the door > violence of people coming into someone else"s house and what this could lead to (beginning of novel) Though she feels a political involvement, she does not let this bias her writing and it remains politically neutral. Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical de nition of the freedom of art. For if art is the freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors? . The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind"s eye only, fade out in the sand. > there is an enormous gap between those who are committed and who do not care. > goebbels, not gobbles (will be found online)

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