DST 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Robyn Doolittle, Cautionary Tale, Settler Colonialism
3 Mar 2017
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Canadaland: robyn doolittle ep re: sexual assault cases being thrown out. Teaches us who we are and are not. Reflect culture, produce culture, police culture, criticize culture. E. g. literature critiquing something can be more palatable than upfront critique. We tell stories but they also tell us - thomas king. Important to have multiple stories of madness told by many different people. Story/account of events - true or fictitious (what) Whether we mean to or not, harmful or not, we constantly tell other people"s stories. Even objective accounts are authored by people. Told and retold: they circulate, therefore can be plucked out. Unidimensional story/people aka defined by one aspect. Drive the plot (narrative prosthesis-- when disability becomes prop for a boring story) Character is dead/normalized in the end, therefore it was never really about the disability. Act as platform for normative characters to develop. Other characters become full/multidimensional on the back of these disabled characters.
