ENG272H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Americanah, Elegy, Chinua Achebe
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An exam that is testing your ability to draw links between the works. Must show proficiency in 4 different works, in not its 25% off your mark. Cheat sheet is allowed with no essay on it. There are nine themes we focused on during the course: flirting with the autobiography. Joyce and the boy in araby and gabriel in the dead : in araby the boy lived on north richmond street- same street as joyce. Adichie and ifemelu: come from igbo tribe, raised in catholic houses, and went to university in the same city, the differences are class and identity (ifemelu has to be someone else while in america) Ifemelu and papi come to america to work and do things: both have networks and get taken advantage of. Getting at the stuff of personal experience. Literature as a place to hash out trials, tribulations, and of course happiness of going abroad.
