WRITING 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Noble Savage, English-Based Creole Languages, Jean Rhys
26 Jan 2016
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Writing 101: literature of the black diaspora lecture 4. Aim c saire martinique (french colony, leaves to paris, meets senghor) Leopold senghor senegal (become first president of senegal) Clare savage: protagonist of many of cliff"s novels, mixed-race, considered white like. Asks us to consider sycorax (caliban"s mother: precolonial female, island, land , cultural significance pre-colonization. Cliff is the product of colonization/the colonizer. Caliban has rejected the idea that he could ever represent the colonized child: cliff continues to grapple with her id in the system. Caliban and cliff both focus on the power of language: language enables communication, and forcing people into silence is incredibly powerful isolation within oneself (speechlessness, inability to communicate one"s ideas) Cliff recognizes being both caliban and ariel. Caliban using the new language to curse and insult. Bertha rochester married rochester in the caribbean, she is creole, mental health declines when taken back to england.
