ENGL 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Cognitive Dissonance, Semiotics, Robyn Davidson
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Robyn davidson: tracks lecture 3 tracks, indigeneity and the places: Davidson"s wriing changes slightly depending on the kind of reality she is trying to convey. From: by now i was uterly deprogrammed to perverted crippling insanity it really is (209) Genre: makes the unknown known : rebirth, what has been removed: experience of not knowing , which she is trying to convey, sense of confusion, sense of importance in social custom, let with state of spiritual unknowing . Davidson doesn"t discover the meaning of woman or sexuality . Her feminism entails a quesioning of certain kinds of meaning, those that uphold the expectaions of society and patriarchy. Davidson"s feminism is the quest for a diferent order of meaning. Are there parallels with aboriginal/indigenous and non-human experience? (not comparing. Indigeneity is a huge topic that touches on quesions of colonialism, race, idenity, representaion, and prejudice.
