ENG250Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Maxine Hong Kingston, Ghost Story, The Bluest Eye
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History is linked with works of imaginations and art: different modes of knowing where fact cannot be separated from values but also characters tell stories about themselves. It makes us question whether or not it"s made up. By selecting details, we"ve falsified them how much truth turns a narrative from truth to fiction. In the bluest eye, we talked about language. Morrison is suggesting that there are multiple realities in which there are many communities of languages. According to whitman, people speak different languages of morals and ethics, even if they speak in the same language. In kingston"s book, we see someone who is living between 2 different dialect words: One privileges the individual, while another privileges ideas of the family and patriarchy. A: autobiography: kingston uses chinese history to denote how it impacts her and her family. She shows how she cannot represent herself without representing other selves.
