ENG357H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Goth Subculture, Eurocentrism, List Of Skulduggery Pleasant Characters
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Wwi: along with events like fur trading industry and residential school system are colonial initiatives. What"s being consumed in the novel aren"t just the lives of men, but also native culture and practice. Forms of assimilation where native characters are being absorbed into native culture. Niska unpacks this connection when she interprets xavier"s reluctance to join the war effort. (page 294): maybe you wanted to enjoy the quiet days of summer, before being swallowed up by the white men and their ways Niska aware that western culture is going to consume them, the way they think, the way the behave. Wwi brings about a more insidious/sinister form of trauma as cultural imperialism. British accent, the use of morphine/its dissociative effect, supports western individualism as opposed to traditional. Native kinship relations. (page 102): it might be better if they separate us. Kinship relations: the native culture is the collective pronoun we. You see yourself as part of a group.
