ENGL 3960 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Interracial Marriage, Signify, Octavia E. Butler
16 Feb 2017
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Frederick douglass, what to a slave is the fourth of july . Your nation separates: evident that this holiday does not apply to him, degrading effect. Goes to earliest forms of american exceptionalism refers to american decolonization. As praise unfolds clear that whole thing is poisoned. What, am i to argue that it is wrong to make men brutes : lists reasons and then says he won"t argue. Slavery mocks christianity: denounce all of his master. Mockery, hypocrisy, shame: words he goes back to in speech. Rhetorical strategy: rhetorical duels, to him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your nation greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing What america is celebrating vs what he sees. A thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages . The closing clause moves out of the parataxis (elements connected by syntactical : truth telling speech.
