Racism Flashcards

1
Q

‘the handkerchief turn black’

‘wiping his face with a clean white handkerchief’

A

idea of black creating blackness

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2
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‘they invading the country’

A

context

- lack of sympathy in the media

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3
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TLL: ‘tolroy growl’
‘beast winter
‘ a sign telling you to keep off’

A

HoD: ‘wagged to and fro like tails’

‘they howled and leaped’

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4
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‘you not feeling cold old man?’

A

internal racism- structurally previous pave same sentence

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5
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‘a sign telling you to keep off’

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like dogs

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6
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TLL: ‘we is British subjects’

1948 immigration act gave west Indian citizenship but still treat badly

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HoD: ‘philanthropic desire’ = context

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“savages” as “black shadows” and “moribund shapes”

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attaches a sense of incorporeality to their bodies.
Conrad’s description estranges human bodies from the reader
makes common incomprehensible- defamiliarises reader from habitual ways of perceiving their surrounding world

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