1 / 24

World Literature In English

World Literature In English. By NCTU Iris Natalie Joanne Jane Sally. Rude. Themes Rude The First Story The Second Story The Third Story Conclusion. Themes.

theta
Download Presentation

World Literature In English

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. World LiteratureIn English By NCTU Iris Natalie Joanne Jane Sally

  2. Rude • Themes • Rude • The First Story • The Second Story • The Third Story • Conclusion

  3. Themes • Background of Virgo and the • stories • Rude’s Social phenomenon • position • The form of story-telling

  4. DJ Rude

  5. What are the functions of DJ Rude? • Challenging the Canadian government’s immigrant policy • Calling for the lost identity of African Caribbean in Canada

  6. DJ Rude VS Virgil • In the beginning, DJ Rude announces it is Easter weekend which creates a religious frame. • Just like Dante’s The Divine Comedy.

  7. Mother-ship, another name Rude calls the private radio • A sense of floating often makes immigrants not know where they belong to. • Remind us of the miserable history of the Middle passage • Ship implies an instrument in communication.

  8. The First Story --- Luc

  9. Historical Background • Early Caribbean immigrants moved to big cities. After 1962, the Canadian government relaxed the qualifications of immigration.

  10. Social Background • Canada imported a large number of Afro-Caribbean immigrants as laborers. • These Afro-Caribbean immigrants suffered from discrimination and unfair treatment.

  11. Main Framework • General, a skilled painter of murals, has just been released from prison after serving time for drug dealing, and he is trying to reconstruct his life and his marriage to the mother of his 10-year-old son. General’s older, reprobate brother, Reece, works for a psychotic white drug lord, Yankee. Yankee wants General back in charge, General wants out and from there the conflict escalates.

  12. Issues the Afro-Caribbean underclass may face • Husband-wife relationship • Father-son relationship

  13. Yankee • Racial discrimination • Stereotype

  14. The Importance of the Mural • The theme of the mural • Colonization in Caribbean culture • Impression of hell

  15. The Second Story --- Maxine

  16. Mannequins • A window dresser • Her body was seen by others

  17. The Camera Leans • Memories of making love with Andre (Sexual prosthesis) • Expression of repeating the past • (trying to recover herself from those painful memories)

  18. The Sprit Child Her child aborted by Maxine • Herself in her childhood

  19. The conflict of Maxine Different from Rude and Jessica No confidence for the future ( the next generation)

  20. The Third Story • --- Jordan

  21. Main Issues (Jordan) • Homosexuality • boxing

  22. Homosexuality • Discrimination • Contradiction

  23. Boxing • Relate to homosexuality • Search for salvation

  24. Conclusion • The lion --- the Conquering lion a. the Savior b. Haile Selassie – the savior of the black c. the visit of the lion – Salvation

More Related