ENGLISH 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Gangrene, Obasan, Institutional Racism
15 Feb 2017
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Obasan: novel is largely about the importance of archives, kogawa used real historical documents in her novel (did not create/ ctionalize news, memory archive, re-membering, putting yourself back together through memory. The silenced voice come to life, the hidden archive uncovered remembering is re- membering. Everything in front of us is virgin land. Introduces indigenous presence on just the 2nd page of the novel: drawing two connections: similarities between look/treatment of natives and. Japanese: not just racism against japanese, it is institutional racism, historical issue; must be thought about in broad terms, stereotyping groups of people who you do not wish to deal with on a direct basis. Japanese seen in terms of speci c characteristics which were not reality. Chapter 21, rough lock bill: metaphor for people drowning, saved by a native, someone who has suffered the same as she has. P. 65; the dream & the internalization of disgust: old man gower, sexual abuse by her neighbour.
