ENG237H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: African Studies, Latin American Studies, Bionics
Document Summary
Chiang"s story of your life : the alien as transformative experience. Ian mcdonald, cyberabad days: the other: orientalism and postcolonialism, posthumanism, overview of the world of cyberabad days, point of view and/as estrangement in sanjeev and robotwallah, the dust. Kyle meets the river and educating the coloniser: a close reading. Story of your life : the alien as transformative experience. The encounter of the alien changes us in some way. How the encounter can even transform our expectations of how narrative works. Theres an impression that past, present and future is all happening simultaneously. The narrative as a whole requires the reader to read the past present and future simultaneously. Retrospective view (past tense) gets disrupted by the future tense. As the narrative proceeds, there is a repetition of her speech i remember when , you"ll etc. The way she structures time and experience repeats.