ENG 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Wince, Ghee, Bharati Mukherjee
7 Nov 2017
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The management of grief by bharati mukherjee (1988) Written against the dominant position where the narrator. Trying to articulate the consciousness of being indian without being exotic . Sense of immediacy to the telling of the reading. This is present; the effect is happening now. Three groups: experience of those who are suffering, irish; where the actual event took place, those who would act on behalf of the government; social worker; canadian worker; spokesperson. Management: reference to judith; victims go through the stages of grief. Judith is positioned outside the event and the emotion. Written against the traditional image of passive indian. Against the traditional image of females; she"s supposed to be compliant and passive. Examines stages of the immigrant experience (immigration, assimilation) A woman i don"t know is boiling tea the indian way in my kitchen. There are a lot of women i don"t know in my kitchen, whispering and moving tactfully.
