ENGL 1005H Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Magic Realism, Surrealism
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Some things in the background come out in foreground as important. Notice when an author puts something in the background: notice what happens when the thing in the background comes into the foreground, despite whether or not the author intended it to. With lwfc, the excess: too much love, sorrow, pain. Lwfc takes place in 5-6 year period during the revolution: primarily about wealth distribution. Virtually impossible for citizens to buy land, and therefore survive in an agrarian culture: worked as mere slaves, had counter revolution efforts, other intervening forces and countries. Goes on in the background of lwfc: when the revolution does encounter characters in the novel, its treated as a natural phenomenon, if read as nostalgia, could be seen as conservative; things were better before. Foregrounds of female private lives, interest of it. History has always been concerned with men in public, foreground: what does the world look like during the revolution in terms of cooking (women, background)
