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38 Cards in this Set
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White savior industrial complex |
White westerners need to save those less advanced because they pity them |
New “White Man’s Burden” |
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Clarice Lispector |
The Daydreams of a Drunk Woman |
The moonTan |
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Tanizaki Jun’ichirō |
The Tattoer |
Spider |
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Mind/body dualism |
Rene Descartes: Mind-ideal, rationality, disembodied Body-limited by illness, morality, perception |
Masculine vs feminine |
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Decolonization |
The process of getting rid of colonies and giving them their freedom |
Prayer to the masks The sea is history |
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Leopold Sedar Senghor |
Prayer to the Masks |
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Shia vs Sunni |
Shia: part of Ali, minority, 10%of Muslims worldwide. martyrs Sunni:people of the tradition, majority, 80-90% |
Islamic sects |
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Poetic refrain |
Repeating the exact same thing |
chorus |
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Doris Lessing |
The Old Chief Mshlanga |
exile |
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Chinua Achebe |
Chike's School Days |
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Jason Russell |
KONY 2012 |
Super Neocolonialist |
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Teju Cole |
The White Savior Industrial Complex |
Response to KONY 2012 |
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Patriarchy |
Form of social organization where men predominate in power, wealth, and influence. Social norms all favor men |
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Tradition vs modernity |
The traditional culture/way of life (traditions, etc) vs new ways of thinking or life |
To be a cannibal or not to be a cannibal... |
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english vs English |
both languages -english is a unique form of english spoken in other areas that carries your experiences -English is standard "Queen's" English |
West vs the Rest |
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poetic situation |
the when and where of the poem |
think setting |
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exile |
prolonged absence from one's native country or place regarded as home endured by force of circumstances or voluntarily undergone for some purpose |
banishment falls under this |
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poetic speaker |
poetic voice, not necessarily a character |
think narrator |
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Marjane Satrapi |
Persepolis |
Iran |
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the veil/hijab |
symbolizes modesty, privacy, and morality. Was not originally part of Islamic culture but was from surrounding groups like the Hebrews, Greeks, Byzantines, and Persians. Became a popular anti-western symbol |
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Hanan Al-Shaykh |
The Women's Swimming Pool |
let's drag poor old grandma all over the city |
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NoViolet Bulwayo |
Hitting Budapest |
let's sell her shoes |
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fugue |
a repetition with differences each time |
think Hallelujah chorus |
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geisha |
"art person" 16th-17th century orgins in Kabuki indentured servants who are entertainers above all else and devote their lives to art |
Japan |
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hybridity |
being more than one thing at a time |
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imperialism |
the idea and belief that you are justified in taking over other places |
the ideology |
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neocolonialsim |
power imbalances of the West vs the rest white savior complex |
think NoViolet Bulwayo |
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self-reflexivity |
a style of literature where the literature is aware that it is literature |
I am writing this and you are now reading this |
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universal vs particular |
universal- things that can apply or relate to people around the globe particular- things that are specific to a place, people, and/or culture |
relates on small scale vs large scale |
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stream of consciousness |
literary technique derived from psychology in the 1920s in Europe that seeks to capture the subjective impressions in an individual's mind. Interior monologue with fragments of thought, free association of ideas, and sensory details |
Drunk Woman |
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Anglophone |
any writing in english that is not from the US or Britain |
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born-free generation |
generation born in Zimbabwe post-independence |
can't blame the West for everything |
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civilizing mission/ White Man's Burden |
go colonize and "civilize" the rest of the world. Rudyard Kipling wrote "White Man's Burden" which was a call to arms for Americans to go colonize |
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colonialism |
economic, military, and cultural domination of a group of people |
boots on the ground |
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diaspora |
any group of people who have sperad or become dispersed beyond their traditional homeland or point of origin |
Syrian poetry and Derek Walcott |
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cultural appropriation |
taking elements of a different culture and claiming them as your own |
Picasso |
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Femme Fatale |
"fatal woman" A woman so beautiful and seductive she brings about your downfall. 1800 or earlier in French literature |
Tattooer |
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Constantine Cavafy |
Waiting for the Barabarians |
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