English 2601E Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Defamiliarization, Psychological Trauma, Just War Theory
17 Oct 2018
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Periodization of literature is important to understanding texts. The idea that you are shaped by your parents. The scene when okoye points at his tally of debt on the wall- the meanings of signs and symbols. Right away okoye can see the hierarchy of debts. It"s a s(cid:272)e(cid:374)e of dispute o(cid:448)er the (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g of sig(cid:374)s. Renegotiation of language systems and contracts of meaning. What the postcolonial writer does is create a new language. It is a novel that combines literary modes to combine something new. African map today- all straight lines, someone had to sit down and make up all the countries- colonized. An unknowing character- u(cid:374)relia(cid:271)le, does(cid:374)"t fully u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)d the syste(cid:373) (cid:449)here they inhabit. Okonkwo is full of contradictions, never knows whats going on yet he is the protagonist. The novel is a combination of aspects of realism, modernism, and romance.
