ENGB12 Part 2 – Flashcards

- figurative border dividing fiction and non-fiction - Truth claim vs Truth Value - Evidence: Family and historical documentation

- text reminding us it's a text - Maus: Art working through a writing process - Fun Hoe: writing in her journals

- authenticator - subjectivity vs objectivity - reflection - authority claimed, broken down - factual and interpretive

- self can't tell its own story, it requires others - identity - family stories in "Shot in the Heart" - post memory

- relations between texts - Allusions implied though not plainly expressed

- moving bodies of knowledge - movement

- Maus I/ Maus II - Jew - Documents his father's life in the concentration camps - Refers to Jews as mice

- The skin I'm in - Deals with racism while studying - Was unaware such Racism exists

- Shot in the Heart - Was born after the family's "good times" - Reflects on memories that were not even his - Feels excluded from his family - Talks about his brother as a criminal

- Fun Home - uses the technique of "I think" in her journal - She was lesbian - Her father was gay - Her father cheats on his wife - Her father died

- Brother, I'm Dying - girl fro haiti lives with her uncle - meets with her family at age 14 - becomes pregnant and gives birth before father dies - uncle dies trying to get into usa

- Redefining Realness - Trans women discusses her life - Talks about her life from birth till present

- Forbidden Love/ Forbidden Lies - Wrote a book claiming the story was fact - Autobiography video proves otherwise - Travels to Jordan - Discovered to be a pathological liar

- The subject of the matter. The subject being narrated by the Narrating I.

- This person is a historical figure who is inclined to tell the story of the self

- How the agent comes to identify themselves in the world. How we see ourselves being placed in society.

The factors that make up each individual person into the unique being they are. No two identities are alike

- Coaches - Adressee - Historical, Contingent

- Edwidge is pregnant - Her father, Mira, is diagnosed with Pulmonary Fibrosis - Her father values the system of family and is on the verge of dying so he doesn't want her to Leave New York - At age four she lived with relatives in Haiti - Joseph the pastor, Denise his wife - Joseph diagnosed with throat cancer and says "brother I'm dying" - Joseph and Mira are brothers - Joseph returns to Haiti to continue preaching after receiving treatment in the states - Joseph accepts Edwidge as his daughter - Edwidge and Bob reunite with the family in USA later on - Joseph dies in custody as he tries to enter america - Edwidge names her new born daughter after her father - Mira lives long enough to meet Mira

- life story - going through transitions - moving from phase to phase - undergoing the troubles of not only trans but also black and being a women - admitting to her boyfriend that she is trans - during her kiss with aaron she has to admit her truth

- Translator - Co-writer - Someone who transforms the message of a story into the meaning they believe is correct

The audience who is present to judge (priest during a confession, judge during a court trial). We speak in certain ways depending on who are we are speaking to

A historical pattern: racism, presidency, Royalty,