ENGL 1080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Rohinton Mistry, Clark Gable, Canadian Literature
20 Feb 2016
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Preoccupied with india, so he focuses on his home city at a. Vividly realist prose with a poetic quality, similar to joyce"s vivid. 1980s: immigrant voices make canadian literature more distance descriptions of dublin diverse/interesting. This story is about the immigrant experience. 3 main themes in the story: storytelling. Sense of an audience within the story. A sport and its cultural/ethnic values are connected to ethnic practices. Background to do with colonialism, presence of teams teams british. Easier to pronounce than his native name; he"s tired of people butchering his name. The person bearing the name feels they have to make the accommodation by changing name rather than us learning to pronounce it. Similar to sport, food can be identified with certain cultures: allusions to popular culture + how they reflect the cultural values of a character. Rose marie, clark gable moustache, bridge on the. Way for mistry to deal subtly with issues of colonialism.
