ENG364Y1 Lecture 8: Lecture 8 - Beloved (pt. II)
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Relationship between individual and collective (trauma, collective past) No way to talk about something that is so unique and experiences itself within representation. The bit: metal plate on tongue tightened at the back. Deprive speech and damage vocal chords etc. Silencing, dehumanizing, disassociation of making these instruments of torture. Trying to break silence but also make aware that some things can never be said. Loving too much = dangerous for a slave. It/this is not a story to passed on even though she just did. Not a story to repeat/perpetuate (traumatic repetition) Intergenerational trauma don"t want children to relive that story again. Unrepresentability of everything that happened (lack of records and narratives) Control over children; control over body (baby suggs preaching about the body) Claim own flesh giving value to the self. Install love onto others to consistently work at freedom. Loving each part and putting it into language singing, orality (functions as a theme with denver"s deafness)
