ENG353Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Michael Ondaatje, Nuclear Weapon, Double Consciousness
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People project their interpretation on the patient (he is a blank canvas) Telling a history but not a canadian history. Representation of the national and the international citizens feel capable of traversing national boundaries vs thinking of themselves as citizens of the world. What it means to be someone who travels or bound by political laws. The canadian historical novel historical romance. The past is something we can access even though we are not in the past. Representation of the body scarred and ghostlike body of the patient invite different character projections (marked and unmarked because it is unrecognizable) how does the body bring the past into the present. Representation of reading the labors people undergo while reading something. The decision making process as a storyteller (alias grace) they expose the way we choose certain strands to emphasizes/things we do and do not notice. You cannot tell a narrative that discloses everything.
