ENGB19H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Subhas Chandra Bose, Sari, Persian Language
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# 6: the evil of ice-candy man has less to do with hate than with desire. Topics for class: partition, child"s perspective, lenny & sidhwa. Classical teller + listener relationship (saleem & padma midnight"s children) Cracking india = more of realist novel. Lenny sethi born august 11, 1939. Bapsi bhandara (later sidhwa) born aug. 11, 1938. Autobiography vs. history: this novel & midnight"s children = similar, can"t tell my story w/out telling nation"s story. Compared to canada, south asian literature needs to be referred back to nation"s history: could be b/c it"s recent, the partition, more violent too compared to canada, but india is quite old!! Can"t be so individualistic: impulse to educate both sidhwa + rushdie live outside of india. Diasporic quality in english (global: canada = post-national b/c so many diverse ppl, lahore british india, close to amritsar (both in punjab) Ww2 congress leaders led to quit the india campaign & were thrown in prison.
