RHETOR 109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Audio Description, Helen Keller
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Very openly guilty about her feelings and actions, very honest (cid:498)(ow the false, when perfectly enacted, can be even more poignant than the truth(cid:499) (cid:523)57(cid:524) Very aware of performance - whether on stage, or reading a boo, actions are performance (what you include, what you leave out) Tendency to think of the memoir as real life, rather than the performative (where real and fictive intersect) Confessional, honest, exaggerating things, shaping things in complex ways. Certain things are repeated throughout: lions camp as organizing trope, me and them them refers to different things when i am the environment. Environments: times when i am in the environment and times. Authority/ power: her wielding of it, her observing other boys. Russians (threat to her existence in berlin, when her mother was vaccinated) Her relationship to deafness (small d in title) Whether parents were deaf or not, galloway"s parents were hearing (cid:498)performance of drowning(cid:499)
