ENGLISH 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Metonymy
13 Mar 2016
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The colonial histories and suggesive possibiliies of objects and commodiies in july"s people . Soap in a colonial context is a powerful tool (started from the 19th century rise of adverising) Ads oten frame a european igure ofering soap to a non-european as a means of cleansing/whitewashing them. Objects have histories and stories to tell. Elaine freegood calls on readers to interpret the fugiive meanings of apparent non- symbolic things (4: fugiive leeing, you have to work to understand them. Objects leave metonymic inferences or resonances (51: metonym atribute meanings to words. They create power-relaionships/struggles, they drive the colonial project. For bone elephants, one with a broken trunk , the khaki potery bulldog with the union jack painted on its back (3) Broken trunk maimed african animals, elephants ivory trunks exploited for colonialism. Khaki potery made in africa but painted with the lag of colonialism. Her school shoes, cleaned by our jim (3)
