ENGLISH 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Obasan, Japanese Canadians, Pickaxe
17 Apr 2016
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Klee wyck: connecion between the oppressed japanese canadians and canada"s indigenous people. Animal farm/july"s people: the power of language/withholding language. Kw/gdib/af/jp: betrayal by a place where they felt a connecion to (state) People who were born in a certain country but never feel at home. Soldiers in gdib feel like their country has betrayed them selling war for its glory/fame and realizing in the trenches o o that war is not what is seems. Idea of state rhetoric/manipulaion of it"s ciizens to make them think in a way that might not align with the reality o of the situaion. We are the chips and sand, the fragments of fragments that ly like arrows from the heart of the rock. We are the silences that speak fro stone. We are the issei and the nisei and sansai, the. We disappear into the future undemanding as dew (obasan 158-159)
