ENGL 103W Lecture Notes - Heterosexuality, Tony Kushner
16 Dec 2012
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Told by the angel that he is a prophet. Not from a religious group that stands out like the mormons. Marked by his sexual orientation and his illness. His body is literally marked with lesions. Suggests that many americans are marked and don"t melt seamlessly in the american identity. Jewish immigrants will always be marked by the experience by their old homes and old land persecuted and forced from their homes. Louis describes his grandmother as on of the last of the mohicans metaphor of the last survival of a noble race or tribe early 20th century jewish immigrants. First nations people are the most american yet they struggle against oppression and prejudice , sense of difference within the american society still being positioned as an object of discrimination. What criteria does roy cohn use to organize people in categories. Homosexuality people who don"t have power who know nobody, who nobody knows.
