ENGL 3481H Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Baby Talk, One Story
24 Apr 2019
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Wagamese"s published books: novels: keeper"n me (1994), a quality of light (1997), dream wheels (2006), ragged. Meditations (2016: memoirs: for joshua: an ojibway father teaches his son (2002), one native life (2008). = what language means + what language does: the two realms of language (126): the real world & the world of our imaginations . The imaginary indian of the imperialists is a threat to real indigenous people. We were either heathen devils running around killing people or just simple savages who desperately needed the help of the missionaries in order to get straightened out and live like real people. If white people hadn"t got here when they did we"d have all died. (18) Stereotypes inform contemporary racist views: garnet"s foster father: see. If you don"t start shaping up and doing what you"re told around here, that"s what you"re going to become! (18) I was twenty-four when the first ojibway word rolled off my tongue.
