ENGB19H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Inferiority Complex, Indira Gandhi, Methwold
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* w/ = with: mimicry or hybridity, national consciousness, imagining the nation. Greatest threat to the india that saleem represents is indira gandhi. The midnight children"s conference group is imaginary even though saleem insists they"re real. National consciousness identifies with the nation (other children in the midnight"s children are all from india) Those indians who are adopting western ways (e. g. eating western food) Or can be looked at as identifying w/ 2 different cultures. Methwold estate is this english-english place: requires all the indians to keep the english furniture etc. If indians surrounded by english things, will then act or mimic the english. Business men of india becoming capitalist in the western/english model: whiteness disease or mimicry of methwold estate, adopting all opinions of english, speaking english, etc. Mimicry is object of satire for critics. Mimicry is funny book is mocking characters who are trying to be so english/white. Talking budgerigars: parrots who speak but aren"t really speaking, just mimicking.
