ENG140Y1 Lecture 12: 12 Angels in America 2
Document Summary
Systems of belief: mormonism (joe and harper) Dark portrait of lives of mormon characters. America as the new holy land: centrality of north america. Gained political clout; contributed nancially to anti-gay politics: aligned with consolidation of nuclear heteronormative family values. Oppressive image of mormonism that kushner seems to subscribe to. What happens when the systems of belief fail you: hannah and prior: hannah does not meet the expectation of mormons. Hannah not necessarily a homophobe: dislikes all men, maybe: realization that she may not be heteronormative. Two people who should perhaps be in con ict. Prior as a prophet of a new form of belief: protestant, jewish and mormon people forge something else, angel appearing to prior. Hope for actual justice: derrida"s the force of law. French pun: justice is a venir, a-venir (the process of coming; the future) What if justice were signi ed not by a destination but a continuous journey: justice as process; never-ending pursuit.
