Review Session Notes

Midterm Review Sheet
ID’s- 7 options, only have to do 5
Essays- 3 prompts, only have to do 2

**i've underlined all of the i.d.'s... we were unable to get to all of them during the session so make sure you go over them. good luck everyone, hope this helps!

Allegory
-When a structure, represents the whole. (Social reality)
-Operates on two levels, a literal level and a symbolic level.
-Person cannot be an allegory, it has to be a literary structure.
-Bakha “Untouchable,” day to day activities, incorporate western elements even when he doesn’t try.
-Toloki “Ways of Dying,” representing death through his appearance and actions but he is living.
Caste system
-A system of dividing society, based on occupation and socio-economic status. No room for upward social mobility.
-Example: Bakha’s father was a street sweeper and when he passed, Bakha was expected to
-Untouchable- Indian society in the 19th society
Love
-Complications,
-“Love, do not ask”à addresses issue of love… at first he has a deep love for an individual, but then he realizes the issues going on in the world. Transition into a specific kind of love, all encompassing.
-Love as an allegory..
-Love as a ritual… different forms of love,
Grotesque
-A chemical element of distortion…compared to the figure of Toloki himself (costume, appearance, “dead eyes”)
-Also, events in the book… the church and the practices, cleanse themselves with herbs.
-“Chronicle of a death foretold” autopsy scene…
-“Season of Migration to the North” death of European women, and murder of wad rayyes and suicide.
-Raising the level of interpretation in the novel, of violence and objection… disturbing elements… makes readers confront underlying violence in colonization and decolonization or even apartheid… violence involved in a system like apartheid.
Mourning
-Toloki in Ways of Dying… professional mourner. He’s selling his feelings to people. Goes to funerals and moans…
-Mourner and nurse.. compare/contrast how they are similar and different.
-Nurse has always been there, tells how the death actually happened…narrative count of the death.
-TOloki makes sounds, groans. Attends funerals of poor people, others think he is crazy.
-A way of forming or reforming a community.
-Mourning?
-Displacement of people, loss of homeland,
Culture
-Where is culture emphasized?
-“Chronicle of a Death Foretold” – Arabic and Latin cultures… how they affect relations between groups.
-Try to speak on confrontations of culture..
Revenge
-Chronicle of a Death Foretold- twins kill Santiago Nasar, revenge will give you something back. And if you don’t retaliate you are less of a man. Hyper masculinity… if he doesn’t fulfill expectations of society than he is less of a man.
-Season of Migration to the North… Mustafa wanting to dominate over English women… deaths.
-Untouchable… Bakha wanting to kill the priest for what he did to her sister.
Violence
Independence
Refugee
Guilt responsibility
Magical realism
-“Ways of Dying” sends you on a path. Everything is intricate and well thought it, it makes you think it’s real but it’s not really.
-Ex: Toloki and Noria putting pictures up, sitting on a queen size bed…but not really happening.
-Makes you really see how the situations are absurd, such as apartheid. The ways in which the novel deals with depicting these situations.
-Chronicle of a Death Foretold- the letters… obsession with Bayardo, dreams he’s with her. Then he comes back.
Community
Polyphonic novel
-Chronicle of Death Foretold – written through many different voices. Almost as if it is a live interview.
-Ways of Dying – voices of Mustafa and the narrator. Also, Toloki and Norias voices, but the narrator is the community.
Historical memory
-History is subject to the opinions of those recording it. No official account, no dispute.
Pan-arabic nationalism
-“Men in the Sun”—the belief that the whole Arab world should be unified as one country.
-What political obstacles does that belief encounter? The border between Iraq and Kuwait, but also the real geopolitical effects of the line brought upon.
-England and France drew those lines, Sikes-Picot agreement.. secretly drew up a boundary.
Displacement
Resistance literature
-Men in the Sun- the culture, how is it working in the colonial/post-colonial literature? Is resistance literature actually resisting?
-The fact that it is written in the form of a novel…
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