ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ethnocentrism

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15 Jul 2018
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> god has ordered the world such that a man like robinson crusoe could make it if he tries - middle class aspect of the book. > crusoe as the not the best reader of robinson crusoe. > not the romantic novel - attempts to recreate civilization not escape from it. > making things that seem natural not necessarily natural. > words he use -- savages and savagery. > through the colonial discourse, book is creating middle-class implied child reader. > this book is a class b/c it is not 100% convinced of that ^ - there are anxieties that open up other perspectives of the colonial world view. > prioritizing individual over his ties to the family, etc -- everytime he seems to make an affective tie w/ someone, he breaks it w/o a thought. > adventure narrative both celebrates and worries about individualism. > full force of the anxieties - when we focus on ethnocentrism, reproduction, etc.

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