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Representation
01/10/2012 02:49
Representation: introduction to the topic
Kanchanakesi Channa Warnapala: Dismantling the Gaze: Julia Margaret Cameron's Sri Lankan Photographs
abstract: Through an analysis of Julia margaret Cameron's Sri Lankan photographs, the author argues that not only are the monolithic constructions of the colonizer and colonized disrupted, but that the colonial gaze becomes multiple and contradictory, the white authorial gaze splintering in reference to colonial Ceylon, Ceylon emerging as a space of disruption, facilitating alternative representations of Victorian womanhood in the colonies.
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1. Who are the characters of the poem? Discuss the role of the robber and the tiger.
2. What is the setting? What part of the day is the poem set in?
3. How is Indian...
Assimilation / Generation Gap
01/10/2012 02:47
Hanif Kureishi - My Son the Fanatic
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1. Briefly retell the plot of story.
2.What is the setting?
3. From whose perspective is the story narrated?
4. Characterize Ali and his transformation as viewed by his father. What are his reasons for the change?
5. Comment on Ali’s relationship to his father. Why is Parvez worried about him?
6. Why is Parver ashamed to talk about his son’s transformation in front of his friends?
7.Comment on Parvez’ s relationship to Betina. Why is he able to confide in her?
8.Why can Parvez not see the right cause of his son’s transformation? Is it because he lost contact to his origins and assimilated into British culture?
9.Explain Ali’s statement addressed to his father: “You are too implicated in Western...