ENG 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Queequeg, Jean Baudrillard, Richard Widmark

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 110
• Professor: Jonathan Rollins

Document Summary

King has mixed heritage and dual citizenship- cf. crossing borders. Novel set in a blackfoot reservation in alberta. Cf. the 49th parallel: an arbitrary border of two nation states that disregards the integrity of the stateless nations it dissects (cf. other examples in the world: Coyote: trickster- necessary fool; cf. the necessary wise fool of shakespeare, the necessary unstable, destructive shiva of indian tradition. Reliability of the storytellers ( everybody makes mistakes (14). ) Linearity- vs. something more cyclical or circular. An amalgam of narrative traditions and references. God and dog ( i am ); cf. the god/dog inversion in pauline. 1: so - colloquial; deflates- later, we"ll talk about what king says regarding the use of humour in native narrative tradition- it diminishes authority . 1: but then mixed immediately with native story/stories. 1: who is the i: cf. The word (john 1:1- with god in the beginning)