ENG140Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ira Glass, Toni Morrison, Masculinity
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Vocalized through an 11 year old boy who is steeped in lower middle class white culture: mrs. sen - eliot, defamiliarization, immediate surroundings, cultural context, mrs. sen"s - reader, independence, narration, ethical defamiliarization. Habitualization devours work, clothes, furniture, one"s wife, and the fear of war. If the whole complex lives of many people go on unconsciously, then such lives are as if they had never been. " (tolstoy) Repetition of daily life numbs us from reality. Central to how literature works as art. How familiar becomes unfamiliar place and culture. Page 126 they drove in silence defamiliarization. Page 120 faltering english makes us pay more attention. Gains new perception of another world (india) Tight-knit indian community contrasts his idea of his neighbourhood. Page 113 he can sense that his perception is different from mrs. sen"s. Screaming at home in india people will come to celebrate or comfort (community) ; defamiliarizes his own home.
