ENGC50H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Outlandish, Bildungsroman, Jorge Luis Borges

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Unlike morrison"s god help the child or loom, acker"s novel has various voices but no distinction between the voices. Written in the early eighties, and has something aesthetically to do with punk culture (after all, acker was also a punk poet) Punk culture was also changing gender norms, sexuality, and sexual fluidity. Great expectations is considered to be a radical, feminist critique. The writing style itself is also very radical - this comes from the french feminist idea of writing with you body . Writing is more fluid and doesn"t tend to objectivity. Since our experiences with our bodies are different, our body" of writing is also different. Was also known as a literary criminal along with acker. The cut-up method - take text, chop them up arbitrarily, and reassemble them. Fascination with the middle east, especially morocco and tunisia. These writers that moved to the middle east did experience a strange, alien feeling in this place.

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