English 2310E Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Brm P48, Gleaning, Natural Disaster
25 Mar 2017
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Key terms: glean, trauma, emotions/feelings, the body, layers of meaning, pneumatic effect, the dead, the walking. This analogy can be deepened with organizational metaphors: the labyrinth, detours, maze, etc, episodes, history development, ruins/rubble/debris. You can say there are ruins everywhere, but regardless they have an important narrative function. Gleaning focus on vignettes of perspective. The walk through the city: capturing the sense of the damage, getting to know the city, the drive to his mother"s: The actual event vs. how he writes about it shows symbolic function. A cognitive event and framework to put order on the destruction. What does it do: driving to the hotel, from the hotel to his mothers, and back again, a metaphor through which he organizes his encounter with the city in ruins. The traffic network: reflects the collapse and the re-ordering of the haitian social order. Poetics of relation (edouard glissant: how our relations are rendered in narrative terms.
