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Vassanji NOSTALGIA (immigrants, dystopia+satire) (ANALYSIS (DYSTOPIA…
Vassanji NOSTALGIA (immigrants, dystopia+satire)
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ANALYSIS
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Settings - Toronto, mid 21C
DYSTOPIA
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"collective bestness", "only silence is absolutely safe"
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border, Lawrence town - "forgotten world", bipolar society ("us" vs. "them")
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IMMIGRANT'S EXPERIENCE
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Persley - terrorist with a new identity, immigrant from the Trird World Country
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BUT the past refuses to stay buried >< unconscious + lion as a leitmotif + Freud's notion of uncanny (known, but from which the mind has become alienated through the process of repression)
>< Gothic Tale "Frakestein" by Mary Shalley. ? - what does it mean to be human. The responsibility of the "creator", misuse of science, critical reflections on the Enlightment ideas
The narrator - Frank Sina (retrospective, wise now vs. ignorant self before) + autobipgraphical details (MIT)
postmodern humanism - ethical questions, what does it mean to be human, responsibility towards historical events
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