NEW250Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Magic Realism, Afro, Mark Dery
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Half of the yellow sun: from the cinematography to the love stories, the movie deployed grotesque tropes, there was a real sense [in the book], the legitimacy of the fight for biafra. The unjust economic situation in nigeria at the time w/ the southeast really financing the country in particular the north. The injustices of what happened in the north, the sense of ethno-nationalism. The project of multi- national nationalism was doomed to failure: up until now, the last 5 years, our only access to remembering biafra came in the form of fiction. There were all these fictionalized narratives that dealt with the 3 year devastating war. This is suggestive of the incapacity of politics and political economies in various stages to deal with trauma. It(cid:859)s o(cid:374)ly (cid:374)o(cid:449), 20 yea(cid:396)s afte(cid:396) the t c of outh af(cid:396)i(cid:272)a i(cid:374) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h (cid:449)e (cid:272)a(cid:374) see (cid:272)(cid:396)iti(cid:395)ues of p(cid:396)o(cid:272)esses, and academic work.
