ENGB19H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: The Hungry Tide, Anglophile
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{read amitav ghosh the hungry tide to the end of part 1 the ebb . They know different things and communication among them is never straightforward. The tempest: abt. a colonizer arriving at an island, finds 2 ppl. frees 1, enslaves another, propero master of the island, ariel caliban. Real world is being made somewhere else. (pg. Anglophile parents + grandparents make him learn english songs. One generation"s mimicry = next generation"s hybridity: children are innocent; are not imitating for impression or status, etc. are just taking what is in the environment. Lenin quoting julius caesar: lend me yawyers bones. (p. 260) Estha quoting julius caesar (79-80: motive of mimicry, lenin doesn"t care of english literature; just pleasing his father. Father = very happy b/c son reading out english lit. Estha often mimicking them too but he"s disrespectful b/c he uses different order of words, palys w/them, curiosity.
