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Literature of the Global Experience, exploitation/commodification, uses…
Literature of the Global Experience
Kafka on the Shore
The Vegetarian
Swing Time
Go, Went, Gone
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Exit West
exploitation/commodification
of trauma
historical trauma
Kuntah Kinteh Island
"Every image had a cartoon thinness to it"
"hollowness"
treatment of others as a means to an end
Johnnie Walker's cat-killing scheme
"There's an essential order you have to follow in everything."
how Yeong-hye is treated by her husband and brother-in-law
lack of imagination
lack of personhood
"'So you're no longer yourself...that's very important, Mr. Nakata."
"You will now feel the pain"
"The pain was too obviously everywhere, this just happened to be where they'd placed the monument."
of the beautiful or spectacular
dance and theater
Show Boat
Swing Time
and minstrelsy in general
Tracey's competition dance career as a child
art
In-hye's husband's art piece where he uses Yeong-hye as a sexual object
including raping her; and only stopping because "the image he'd wanted to capture on film had to be one that could be repeated over and over again"
objectification
Mr. Cheong's treatment of Yeong-hye as a servant and a symbol of his own status
uses his luck to help those whose circumstances are less fortunate
what do we as living things owe each other?
does our debt to one another make us human?
"I didn't even regard him as a human being" due to Big Foot's cruelty towards animals and other humans
mistreatment of the global East
monolithic
Africa as a monolith
Richard learning about Africa and its 54 countries and their capitals
the book from Richard's childhood featuring cannibalistic Africans
"The American vice president recently referred to Africa as a country"
Middle East as a monolith
identification of all other locations(i.e. Sydney, Mykonos, London) except the characters' country of origin
less civilized, more dangerous
Aimee's desire to aid poverty in villages in Africa yet not to actively engage with said poverty or said vilages
anger
a source of mental clarity
"Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will be worse the next time you open your eyes."
understanding one's context
"People like us, we can't be nostalgic. We've no home in the past. Nostalgia is a luxury. For our people, the time is now!"
arbitrariness of life and circumstance
deterioration of borders and "native" vs. "migrant" in the world of
Exit West
Richard's reflections on how he is not "better" than the refugees, simply a product of a luckier set of circumstances
Janina finds society arbitrary but nature to be inherent and all-important
"Down here, in the world of Urizen, the laws apply."
"[astrology] is solid knowledge, to a large extent empirical and just as scientific as psychology."
"the world is a great big net, it is a whole, where no single thing exists separately; every scrap of the world, every last tiny piece, is bound up with the rest by a complex Cosmos of correspondences"
"Anger makes the mind clear and incisive, able to see more...anger is the source of all wisdom"
Yeong-hye's dreams
"Why didn't this agitate me like it should have done?"
"Intolerable loathing, so long suppressed...but now the mask is coming off."
a source of liberation and autonomy
Yeong-hye escapes from her marriage through her rebellion
human connection and community
community effort leads to expansion of housing and deterioration of borders