ENG353Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Madeleine Thien, Cultural Assimilation, Synchronicity
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Second infancy swimming lessons as an adult. Title: challenges one single lesson for cultural assimilation. Writing as a source of salvation, redemptive quality (emily of new moon) Life experience can offer potentially creative material. Divided consciousness of those who choose to leave structure: dialogue between. Indias of the mind responding to the exile mother and father and between parents and child (in between countries) Meta-fictional structure focus on how fiction gets made. Themes: exploration of home, exile, belonging, making/finding a new home, negotiating new identities (writer, indian, son complex) Story making that depends on memory as a source of its fabrications (old man reminds him of grandfather in bombay) P. 1090 wants to play by the rules and not be an exception of it. Mother thinks he is homesick (writer writing away from homeland) preconception/expectation that he must write about immigration, father sees it as making fiction out of life experiences (the work of the writer)
