ENG252Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Canadian Literature, Multiperspectivity, Narration
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Film- mysterious warrior: subversion of genre and expectation, desacrilization, genre of the western, the indians always lose, their desire to fix what"s broken. Questions of the ethical imperative to get the story right: subversion of those conventions. Lionel and his uncle eli: want to be white men- connection, pg. Sundance: key event in lionel storyline, pg. 365 completely out of place : significance of his feeling of being an outsider, pg. 384 george looked at lionel and then looked at the indians : point of convergence, moment of conflict that restages a narrative of contact, george as an outsider comes to sundance and seeks to take something away, economic motivation. 422 it"s always good to figure those things out for yourself : narrative i, pg. 431 okay okay i got it, in the beginning there was nothing, no there was the water .
