ENG215H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Rohinton Mistry, Postcolonial Literature, Continental Drift
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The misuse and reinterpretation of stories resulting in the destruction of culture: insidious nature of colonial structures, relaying culture through a non-indigenous perspective. Postcolonial literature is aware of subjugation, systematic domination, and the presence of oppressive structures: built into the story page 156 (in green, squatter a temporary canadian a feeling that he doesn"t belong. Question: why is the squatting" metaphor used to explore sarosh"s attempts to integrate into. Why does mistry use, for example, sarosh"s attempts to find a job, or a. His whole body oppression on an extremely personal level. The public vs. private struggle people face: the boundaries between the private and the public are not as water sealed as we hope they are. Postcolonial literature challenges hegemonic literary forms with unconventional techniques and narrative indeterminacy: indeterminacy baggy and loose goes off in different directions, doesn"t fit the definition of good literature" that is established by the north.
