ENG353Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Baby Point, Lightning, Literal And Figurative Language
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Fugitive pieces: trauma operating on layers the holocaust, jakob"s experience trying to recreate it through imagination b/c he only heard what happened, and intergenerational trauma. Intergenerational trauma as being able to be passed down through narrative: jakob and ben as having connected traumas both experience trauma through hearing, neither saw the first-hand account; neither have a visual experience, esp. Ben: trauma as insidious, contagious; able to be transmitted from one to another esp. through story, the transference of trauma creates an obligation to that story. 111 loss would wreck the language, become the language , he wants to find a language that will do something, not just say something: language itself can carry trauma dialects of the oppressor; pg. 101: an alphabet without memory : finds alternative forms of expression through figurative language, multiple, non-definitive definitions / meanings, 14 we were russian dolls. 63 german walking through greek street like an iron rod so cold it hurts your hand;
