HUMAN 1B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Aeneid, Coromantee, Oroonoko
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99% of important writers, functional readers are men: few women have. Miranda"s access to language arts: england just beginning to expand into. New world before slave trade: women on stage (but disreputable, women reading, consuming; love romantic fantasy about new world expanding colonies spread through bargaining, contract, for individual profit slave trade institutionalized in 1660 by royal charter. 1660: charles 2 charters royal african company labor for plantations in barbados, jamaica, surinam unlike ancient world: race-based, large scale, systematic, based on individual profit ( capitalist prosperity, out of sight, triangle trade (until 19th c. ) Binary oppositions: partners of empire (english) language (and much western philosophy, social life, politics, culture) depends on paired opposites: we/they; master/slave; past/present; male/female; ariel/caliban; truth/fiction; civilization/barbarism. = recipe for domination (aristotle) that denies human complexity. 4. two worlds: surinam vs. coramantien two genres: history vs. fiction two narrators: we/i two superheros: royal prince vs. slave. The power of 2 tweaked hypothesis (parts 1 and 2)
