ASTU 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Tomson Highway, Gerald Vizenor, Close Reading
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Astu oct 18 claim + evidence + analysis. Making sure we are threading it, using your own voice, then taking evidence from the primary text, then own voice again. Younger brother + died young 35 from aids. Not much about him in scholarly writing so there is a knowledge gap. Residential school offered something: difficult to see this bc this book has so much darkness. In jane scudeler, claim: felt ambivalent: e(cid:448)ide(cid:374)(cid:272)e: (cid:862)it"s 50-50(cid:863, a(cid:374)al(cid:455)sis: his use of (cid:449)ords (cid:862)right (cid:374)o(cid:449)(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)i guess(cid:863) What are some of the problems associated with this desire to (cid:862)(cid:272)i(cid:448)ilize(cid:863) the i(cid:374)dia(cid:374) (cid:272)hildre(cid:374): loss of identity (high, loss of culture (high, loss of a cohesive community bc of the gap (high) Isolation bc breaks family bonds (high: changing names and shaving heads (low, prohibition of language (low) Repeating words + phrases is like telling a story. Repetitive structure at the form of the novel is to help tell the story.
