WGS 376 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Psychiatric And Mental Health Nursing
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14 years in guadeloupe, martinique, paris and the congo. Only student of color in an all-white class room in paris. 17: back to paris to study classical literature: left because financial reasons. Creolete" movement: caribbean writers, reexamines their position in a world that has displaced them, colonization. Work contributes to a collective diasperic discourse on displacement by immigration: autobiographical. Also a memoir: tribute to grandmother, vivid metaphors to mask themes, lyrical style. Themes: alienation, exile, immigration, attempt to identify the essential meaning of home, racism, sexism, reading the text". Critical that the idea of juxtaposition of rural and urban landscapes as text: ability to read them. The blank page, julia"s washing away of the notebook. Similar to moment of colonial appropriation in that her genster refuses prior text in inappropriate setting. Not only is the city (urban) and absence of text so too is the language (french)
