EN 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Official History, Imagined Communities, Community Building
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Lecture 5 in the skin of a lion ii. Who decides: benedict anderson in his study entitled imagined communities writes that (cid:498)communities are to be distinguished not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined(cid:499)(cid:523)(cid:888)(cid:524). If he was interested in the stories of those who get excluded by official history, in particular in the macedonian community in toronto, why would ondaatje choose. Macedonians, lithuanians, etc. perspective is not that of privilege. Emerging from darkness, mothlike, walking towards the thin rectangle of the building(cid:495)s southern doorway. The movement was quickly over, the wave of bodies had seemed a shadow of a cloud over the slope. Inside the building they moved in noise and light. It was an illegal gathering of various nationalities and the noise of machines camouflaged their activities from whoever might have been passing along queen street a hundred yards away. (115)
