ETH STD 101B Lecture 18: Week 11 Notes
18 Nov 2020
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The language of blood by jane jeong trenka. Migration is a theme in this book. Having grown up in white family in minnesota. Immobilizes her--hears one thing but experiences something else. In college, experiences stalker--he wants to murder her. Spends her youth trying to eliminate one or the other. Jane"s desire to eradicate her oriental self. Stalker becomes a personification of that desire. She can"t put her past back together again b/c doesn"t know how forthcoming they"re going to be. Inferring a narrative around it in order to put it all back together again. Comes to realization that she"s a writer. Being the writer & being the persona of a work. Willing forgetfulness versus the search for memories. By the end, she meets her mother (but she gets sick & passes away) Getting ready to be married to supportive husband, mark. Adoptive mother has sort of cut her out of her life altogether.
