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Global Experience, Developing Angencies, Deep anger said through art, In…
Global Experience
Trauma on women
Tambu has to learn how to cry, and learn how to acknowledge the things that have hurt her. Giving herself over to the past to be able to go on in the present.
African men and women are made into human capital. A human capital is someone who exists to make someone else powerful. African men and women are made as test subjects for what will make money in western markets. For instance, cheap birth control that is easy to manufacture but dangerous for women in Africa.
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Un-Mournable Bodies
Refugees are turned into unmournable bodies because they aren't treated with common human decency in most places. The world commemorates people who are white when they are suffering, and so certain people are mourned more than others.
Zimbabwe and other African countries that were colonized and are still recovering from colonialism have collectively been turned into an unmournable body to the world.
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Animals are made into unmournable bodies because the violence that is invoked on them is not viewed as immoral. Their bodies are exploited in inhumane ways and they are not mourned.
Women's bodies are unmourned as they are exploited and made into human capital as a means to make money. Black woman's body especially are commodified for white entertainment.
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Tracey in Swing Time is exploited for her body. Through dancing she is exploited into being a stereotype to entertain white people. Additionally, her father also exploits her body by sexually violating her.
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Trauma
Young-eye has a lifetime of undealt wounds. Dealing with her trauma is what allowed her to discover her need and potential to be a plant. And therefore be self-sufficient. Young-hye not only discovers she can be independent of the patriarchy, she learns she can choose to be independent of the years of trauma that she has repressed and that it doesn't have to define who she is, if she doesn't want it to.
Oshima tells Kafka to "Listen to the wind." In saying, this he is saying to accept the changes that are happening. Exit West is telling us to view the world the same way, in a global perspective instead of a individual one.
Saeed and Nadia's relationship change in a healthy way, it reflects the overall novel because it becomes a transformation. The novel is suggesting that it's audience to accept changes in the world.
Metaphors give is concrete images that explain a number of ideas.
Marakami Believes that "everything is a metaphor"
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Similar to young-hye for Kafka trauma paves the way for self-discovery. Kafka cannot return back to his life until he has dealt with all his trauma's. Marakami uses dreams as a way for people to work through their problems. Through his dreams, Kafka is able to deal with his problems which frees him. For instance, being able to forgive his mother because he able to face a version of her in a dream state. Dealing with trauma = agency.
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The EGGS in society: The Eggs in society to Marakami is the people who are powerless, less fortunate, oppressed, and more. The Wall is the system that was put in place to protect us but are actually destroying us.
"It is only the wall that makes us feel like we're two different types of eggs anyway." Society builds institutions that can be portrayed as "a wall." The walls in society can be:
- the fences and borders that are put in place by laws which hinder people's ability to seek asylum in certain places. These walls, prevent refugees from obtaining freedom and building a life for themselves in another country when they have been forced out of their country of origin.
- capitalism is a wall that requires exploitation of the less fortunate in order for the system to function. Thus, it makes the less fortunate the eggs of society. The systems is designed so that the rich can exploit the less fortunate for economic gains, while the less fortunate are given little to no economic opportunity,
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"Society is an act of war because it is a way of setting people up to be distinct from other people."
-William Blake
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Developing Angencies
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- In Swing Time. Dancing is an anchor for the narrator. Because for her dance is outside of history and so dance is a way for her to escape reality.
- Kafka tries to escape reality, the preconceived narratives over his life, and his trauma's through his dreams
- Young-hye tries to escape her trauma by attempting to escape her body.
- Tambu attempts to escape her reality through education. She deems education as her way out.
- Janina tries to escape and stop environmental violence done by humans.
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In "The Vegetarian" and "Kafka off the shore" both books are about the characters developing their own agencies. Both Kafka and young-hye lives and paths have been written for them. Both characters have to deal with their trauma and reject these pre-concieved narratives in order to rewrite their own paths.
Inherited Trauma
In both books the different characters in the novel either impose their views on other people or other people impose their views on them. Kafka tries to make Miss Seiki his mother and Sakura his sister. And in "The Vegetarian" the brother in law tries to make young-hye into embodiment of his fantasies.
Plants are self-sufficient and self serving which is how Young-hye peacefully rejects societies expectations of her.
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"you can't escape the sandstorm." The idea that you have to return to your obligations, even if you want to live in a dream and disassociate. Just like In-hye can't escape her obligations, Kafka can't either. It is why he eventually has to return back to life.
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