ENG364Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Intersectionality, Mother Goddess, Soulmate
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Known in circles, but doesn"t get remembered. Setting in new orleans (unique place): cultural mix. New regional writing: story and customs based on setting/landscape (of a region) i. e. tom sawyer (language used in text) - local colour (on fringes; writing from the south) Can reflect a region and can also entice readers who want to read something of local colour/ exotic. Genres and terms of southern grotesque (faulkner) Binaries and hierarchies of serious writer v. others (centre v. marginal) Disappearing/changing enough where regions weren"t recognizable after anymore. Sense of nostalgia (written after the hurricane in the region -> changed the setting) - History without guilt - desire for desire (failure of reconstruction?) Edna"s background: presbyterian from kentucky (french and spanish heritage) -> different from husband and others. Creole: spanish-french heritage -> aristocrat - new orleans; racial mix/biracial. Terminology (octerum, quaderum): for being 1/4 black/ 1/8 black -> one drop rule.
