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The Beetle and Brexit - Coggle Diagram
The Beetle and Brexit
Why Beetles and bugs?
bugs as destruction, bugs as unclean?
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"“To have had a a share in rescuing that unfortunate girl, and in the destruction of her noxious persecutor, would have been reward enough for me.” (pg. 298)
invading the body, creepy crawly, getting into the body
hi, it's about racist, nationalist fantasies of "arab" invasion; it's also a sexual threat; fear of corrupting British
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Joi': It feels like a message of people moving from other countries will only “corrupt” the natural order of things in England.
Brittany: think generally the idea of someone coming from the east is meant to look like an invader and murderer
"Arrest The Arab" (313); kidnapped a young white lady. "A sufficient force of poliece" hi, it's 19th century use of violent police state; it's orientalism
coming from multiple discourses: criminology, ethnography, policing
“But Mr. Phillips, howsomever that may be, that’s the last Harab I’ll ‘ave under my roof, no matter what they pays, and you may mark my words I’ll ‘ave no more.” (pg. 309) objectifies and makes brownness a pervasive threat--anyone and all "Arabs" will be terrorists
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Policing race and national boundaries while also policing boundaries of gender: Beetle gets locked into gender binary
"What became of the creature who all but did her to death; who he was--if it was a 'he,' which is extremely doubtful" (320)-- the book can't imagine gender outside systems of domination
OK, but the ironies: Which is ironic because we also see in this book that politics in Britain are already corrupt on their own, and that they are employing people for chemical warfare which is horrendous, and there is a lot of societal division amongst their own people. But no the person that is a different color is the corruption of the country
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