ENGL 1200 Lecture : English Review.docx
Document Summary
The capacity of stories to transmit cultural and historical info. (oral transmission, in print, visual, film) Storytelling as an enactment of change (is there a way to tell story where there will be personal change?) (taio acting with violence or changing the ending of the story) Storytelling as a challenge to official history and cultural stereotyping (as soon as we get to know someone we stop stereotyping them, this is the only cure for racism, etc. ) The power of myth to illuminate history and politics (in ceremony mythical storied were interwoven into text and they shone a different type of light on the political sense) Storytelling and the forging of collective identity (woman hollering creek, lady thought she was all alone, and a prisoner, and she reads newspaper and realizes she not the only one being abused) The power of stories to keep memory alive and to preserve culture and knowledge. Go over orientation questions, this will be useful.
