ENG 378 Lecture 6: Beloved
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How does this relate to our identity: we are nothing but the sum of all the events that have shaped us thus far in our life, we are the stories we tell about ourselves. Time never worked the way sixo thought (25: narrative trauma violates narrative in shock after a traumatic event, unable to recall events to cope with trauma, memories put into chronological order. Story sprawls = reader unable to make sense of things. Detached: sethe"s killing of her children (174, narrated by the schoolteacher. Newspaper clipping (183: paul d slid the clipping out from under stamp"s palm because there was no way in hell a black face could appear in a newspaper lurid, out of the ordinary. The speech wasn"t nonsensical (202: we don"t know who is speaking, we don"t know context, but only certain details can be understood repetition of mine , possession identity fuses and fractures.
