ENGL 229 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: African Diaspora, Middle Passage, Edict
10 Dec 2020
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Lecture will focus on the role of language and poetry. A quotation from her collection"she tries her tongue", in which the speaker tells the watch my talk. So as we discuss her poetry today, we"ll try and do just that. Her father was a school principal, and she received a british-style education. And so during an interview, she claims that at school she learned about king a daffodils and nightingales while being surrounded by hibiscus, flowers and hummingbirds. And so from an early age, she saw a disconnection between the of her education and her caribbean environment. Named after the american german film star, marlene dietrich, but later on included t name nourbese , an african name meaning wonderful child . In 1968, received a ba in economics from the university of west indies. Earned an ma in political science and law from the university of western ontario. From 1973-1982, practiced immigration and family law in toronto.
