ENGL 1080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Toni Morrison, Frances Harper, Thomas Satterwhite Noble
3 Feb 2017
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A poem about a lynching turned into a song. Symbol: (cid:838)something that, although it is of interest in it(cid:835)s own right, stand for or suggests something larger and more complex-often an idea or a range of interrelated ideas, attitudes, and practices. (cid:839) Picture of train at station = where the trains are (1-to-1 correlation) In literature symbols are a condensation of multiple things going on. Trees in the south > lynching(cid:495)s, lashing and rape. Overdetermined: (cid:498)texts or textual elements involving multiple causal factors that give rise to two or more plausible, coexisting interpretations(cid:499) (cid:499)render[s] meaning definitive. (cid:499) (cid:498)language can never (cid:494)pin down(cid:495) slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn the ineffable(cid:499) (cid:523)toni morrison, nobel lecture(cid:524). Its force, its felicity is in its reach toward (embodiment of historic past). No one way of dealing with beloved and reading her = overdetermined. Born 1795 in virginia as a slave.
