ENGL123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: War Profiteering
6 Dec 2015
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Like the song of bullets (some benefit from war) What"s at stake in image like mother africa. Hyper nationalistic hyper masculine context-> meant to be. Nation is represented as a women but it"s ruled by the men-> feministic women ruled by men said) Land is inert-> fertile ground and to be planted (that"s what she. She is not the agent rather it"s men like nwankwo get to make the decisions. Initially it seems like it idealizes women but it also reduces them on a typology and an unattainable set of ideals. Because she"s a representative, no internal conflict or her earlier life but nwankwo does. How are we suppose to judge gladys when she doesn"t have like an actual background. Women as represented as the home, supports gender roles. Mother africa holds the shame by not achieving greatness even if they"re being exploited by violence: danger in idealizing women o.
