ENGLISH 2RW6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Essentialism, Palestinian Diaspora, Body Double
8 Dec 2016
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African/ asian diaspora, or palestinian diaspora, hindu diaspora. Final writing assignment-> due anytime during exam period, informal, one piece from museum exhibit, talk about the process of how you cam across this piece and how it affected you. Multiple narratives and the diaspora: a reading of shani mootoo"s (cid:498)out on. Are communities with regards to: location, relocation, migration, colonial history, multiple narratives, confluence, and diasporic spaces. First generation who voluntarily relocates to a host land. First generation who was forced to move to a host land. Would not be nostalgic towards a (cid:498)home land(cid:499) as the host land is their homeland. Some may connect themselves with their homeland even if they have not been. Complex intermingling of spaces (up) rootedness (cid:498)multi- locationality of roots(cid:499) (cid:523)brah 1(cid:887)1(cid:524) (cid:498)putting roots elsewhere(cid:499) (cid:523)brah 13(cid:887)(cid:524) (cid:498)far from being static(cid:499) (cid:523)radhakrishnan 11(cid:891)(cid:524) Ex) a qu b cois who is not up to par could be considered a diasporic body.
