ENGL 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place, Close Reading
Document Summary
Invesigates the tensions and contradicions in thought made possible and enabled by the colonial exploits of europe in the world. Primarily focused on the language and symbols of race and ethnicity in scholarshop and in popular culture. Not a study of non-western beliefs, but rather of western discourses and the way they shape mainstream percepion. Close reading describes the careful, sustained interpretaion of a brief passage of text. Such a reading places great emphasis on the single paricular over the general, paying close atenion to individual words, syntax, and the order in which sentences and ideas unfold as they are read. Not interested in what the text means as much as how it suggests or inimates the diiculies and porlems of meaning . Concerned with tension, ambiguity, irony, and paradox the way ideas change and contradict. Reading in a post-colonial manner means understanding the textual aitude that has shaped your relaion to reality.
