“Et in Arcadia Ego” by AE Ellis

Racism

cooklily97 — 2015-10-17 15:19:14 UTC

Clare "remembered...how her mother had torn a book in half [called] Little Black Sambo" p. 112

England/History of Colonization

cooklily97 — 2015-10-17 15:26:52 UTC

Clare refers to England as "mother-country" p. 114

Refuge in education

cooklily97 — 2015-10-17 15:30:43 UTC

Clare "sought the death of Actaeon from Ovid into Titan. The rape of Leda from Sappho into Michelangelo. Read Elegantiae. Timaeus..." p.117

Colloquial speaking as signifier for 'lower class'?

cooklily97 — 2015-10-17 16:20:54 UTC

"Her twang was coming back...voice breaking the taboo of speaking bad. Discouraged among her people" p.121

Bisexuality

cooklily97 — 2015-10-17 16:23:24 UTC

Gender roles

cooklily97 — 2015-10-17 16:34:04 UTC

Clare feels "almost womanly" in her sympathy.

p.128

Respectibility Politics

detecafix — 2015-10-17 18:41:08 UTC

Clare learns classic languages, but not that of her home; expected to disdain home conflicts and assimilate into academia; Boy expects her to "tame" her hair

Origin stories

cooklily97 — 2015-10-17 19:06:39 UTC

National Front (UK)

cooklily97 — 2015-10-17 19:28:12 UTC

White supremacy

Jane Eyre

detecafix — 2015-10-17 21:18:55 UTC

Clare attempts to identify with Jane but finds herself unable to do so: "All Bertha. All Clare," (116).

Jane symbolizes morality, independence, innocence, while Bertha, tied to the exotic, un-Protestant, dark, impure, fire, and deception: dark, subversive, even deviant womanhood. Clare, knows she will never be seen as the tidy "angel of the house" version of womanhood and aligns herself with Bertha, claiming a legacy of social condemnation, but also the right to 'craziness' and less 'delightfully feminine' conceptions of power.

Rape

detecafix — 2015-10-17 21:33:12 UTC

Intimacy

detecafix — 2015-10-17 21:34:02 UTC

Family

detecafix — 2015-10-17 21:35:48 UTC

Xenophobia

detecafix — 2015-10-17 21:40:39 UTC

Trapezoid Milk Container

sih15 — 2015-10-18 21:12:01 UTC

"the trapezoid promised that were the milk unopened it could keep for five months–the trapezoid held space without matter, except for the molecules of milk." p. 111

The Lady of Shalott (1832)BY ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON

morganhulquist — 2015-10-18 23:12:25 UTC

Clare would recite this when she could not sleep (110)

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174626

- personal dilemma between art and life

- "The curse is come upon me!"

- "And moving thro’ a mirror clear
That hangs before her all the year,
Shadows of the world appear."

More than 100 police officers had to be taken to hospital after clashes at the Notting Hill Carnival in west London. (1976)

morganhulquist — 2015-10-18 23:20:33 UTC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/30/newsid_2511000/2511059.stm

Portobello Road, Notting Hill

morganhulquist — 2015-10-18 23:25:01 UTC

morganhulquist — 2015-10-18 23:30:52 UTC

"Standing before the yellows and reds and blues of Turner" (114)

Microaggressions

morganhulquist — 2015-10-18 23:35:08 UTC

- "you're not at all like our Jamaicans, are you" (117)

- "brushing aside a suggestion she register at the School of Oriental and African studies" (117)

- "you're hardly the sort they were ranting on about" (139) Liz about The National Front (all white party)

Et in Arcadia Ego by Nicholas Poussin

aahillenburg — 2015-10-19 01:11:47 UTC

Constant presence of colonialism

aahillenburg — 2015-10-19 01:26:50 UTC

- letter to uncle written on Queen Elizabeth II postcard (110-11)

- goods in market stalls referred to as "plunder" (112)

- rape of Harry/Harriet as symbol for white forces taking advantage of Jamaica and Jamaicans (129) - even though Harry/Harriet doesn't like to see it that way (130)

- "this New World - her point of origin" (132)

Bertha Mason

aahillenburg — 2015-10-19 01:57:51 UTC

Frietz Eichenberg engraving

Tourism as an effect of lingering colonialism and imperialistic attitudes

aahillenburg — 2015-10-19 02:28:45 UTC

"Poor t'ing nothing. . . we have given him a story he will tell and tell and tell. The sort of t'ing they all want. Exotic. Af-ri-can. Hot nights and mystery. He will return to his lickle business or town or office or country club where everybody is exactly the same and tell them all. By the time he returns he many have kissed Princess Cunnilinga and advised Prince Badn---a in affairs of state. . . . Jesus! . . . Why them cyaan jus' visit and lef' us be?" - Harry/Harriet, 126

aahillenburg — 2015-10-19 02:38:45 UTC

"For we have taken the master's past as our own. That is the danger." (p. 127)

Harry/Harriet's gender and Clare's ethnicity

aahillenburg — 2015-10-19 02:59:41 UTC

"the time will come for both of us to choose. For we will have to make the choice. Cast our lot. Cyaan live split. Not in this world." (p. 131)

Pocahontas memorial in Gravesend

aahillenburg — 2015-10-19 03:21:19 UTC

"A personification of the New World, dedicated to some poor soul who perished in pursuit of it" (136) - Pocahontas and Clare are both shaped by the influence of whiteness against their will

aahillenburg — 2015-10-19 03:29:43 UTC

Clare chooses to identify as a black woman - when National Party march and interactions with fellow students (who are white) prompt her to articulate where she stands and how she feels, she feels marginalization too strongly to identify as being white like them (p. 139)

SUGAR CANE

sih15 — 2015-10-19 03:29:57 UTC

"Im talking about the ruins...Licklemos' you could glimpse them, but of course the cane too high. And were we to walk to them, our legs would be sliced fine by the blades of the cane...sharp, sharp." (p.131)

Jamaica as Paradise

sih15 — 2015-10-19 03:32:37 UTC

"We have given him a story he will tell and tell and tell. The sort of t'ing they all want. Exotic. Af-ri-can. Hot nights and mystery." (p.126)

morganhulquist — 2015-10-19 04:56:49 UTC

Clare (first) misgenders her friend, Harry/Harriet, giving them a fixed identity ("he"), while Clare herself is striving NOT to be stuck with a fixed identity (black/white)

morganhulquist — 2015-10-19 04:58:12 UTC

"I was born this way, that I know. Not just sun, but sun and moon" (128) - Clare's identity too

morganhulquist — 2015-10-19 05:05:28 UTC

"Found she had been tamed, renamed Rebecca" (136) about Pocahontas

Idi Amin Dada

morganhulquist — 2015-10-19 05:09:21 UTC

third president of Uganda, from 1971 to 1979

morganhulquist — 2015-10-19 12:50:56 UTC

Place

morganhulquist — 2015-10-19 12:58:10 UTC

"the place of x is the first (i.e., innermost) motionless boundary of the thing that contains x"

"Each thing is described by place" (117)