ENG252Y5 Lecture 24: Feb 25.docx
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Local newspaper: layering of texts, reference to the photographs, introduction to the archive, narrator"s positioning in relation to the text. Her calling and her sex being risky in her character. Our insufficiency to see the historical perspective. Both end with this narrator"s insufficiency because they weren"t there. Sense of the fragmentary nature of the narrative: her experience of emigration, pg. In 1854 : singular consciousness of this i narrative, reliability, challenge to tell the story, description of the submerged courtship, feminist analysis, characterization as a man who takes things out of the earth- mines for salt. Yet he is this rugged healing of masculinity that gives her a temporary fantasy of a life with a man in the house who is not her father: ross" mother who lost her reason before her death. She is not normal in the way that the other people in the town are. Female reason and how its figured in the text.
