AS AM 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ambrose Bierce, Mongrel, New Criticism
9 Oct 2018
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Continuing (cid:389)the haunted valley(cid:390) and carlos bulosan"s . Recognize we may get more sophisticated analysis, if understanding larger historical. Asams, particularly chinese americans, treated in 1870-80s post-transcontinental flow railroad. In 19th cen, there were different cultural spaces-- advertisements, political discourse, popular culture, literary culture where the nature of asians in america was the primary topic of conversation. In absence of robust asam literary culture, asians were often the subject of literary consideration. Published 1870 in the overland monthly , for primarily literary middle class audience. One level: store featuring an axe murder, a mysterious, haunted valley, The first part is marked by the different points of view of dunfer and the narrator, a journalist-- a (cid:396)young(cid:397) easterner(cid:397) Dunfer is drinking as he tells the story-- why he dislikes the chinese. The dislike is articulated first in the language of religion: (cid:396)he merely explained that there was nothing about chinaman in the new testament(cid:397) (1)
