Kanai perceives Piya at a railway station, and his first impression is that that she looked “exotic”
I wondered why he thought this, beyond her "tomboy" outfit and her foreignness. Why does that equal "exotic" to him?
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- Nov 2022
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Kanai and Piya, the embodiments of a Westernized, metropolitan and technology-reliant culture
It should be noted both these "westernized" people do end up embracing their eastern roots in different ways by the end of the novel.
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Bhabha argues that Freud mixes “repression” with “surmounting,” though the former refers to a psychic reality and the latter to the “repressive workings of the cultural unconscious”
Is Bhabha a Freudian, or are they a Jungian or something similar? It makes me wonder if this is a critique of Freudian psychology from a psychological perspective or a literary.
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It is in a postcolonial India, with its colonial past and continued claims for social justice from the displaced, the Dalits, the minorities and women that refugees are “created.”
A book recognizing the treatment of Dalit people is significant because the discrimination they face is viewed as historical in the west, but is still very present in Indian society today.
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It also rightly critiques the humanitarian approach for its benevolent imperialism and neglect of structural and infrastructural conditions of injustice and inequality.
This drastically changed my perspective on humanitarian approaches, I believed there was a hard line between humanitarianism and the overtones of imperialism, but it became evident that the line is now blurred.
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an Anthropocene fiction is one that “understands itself within epochal, geologic time and includes that form of time within its larger formal operations” (524). On the other hand, Adam Trexler argues in his book-length treatment of the question, Anthropocene Fictions: The Novel in a Time of Climate Change, for a rather narrow thematic categorization of Anthropocene fiction as constituting those works that are quite explicitly about anthropogenic climate change, including plots and settings centered on “melting ice caps, global climate models, rising sea levels, and tipping points” (13), rather than those treating global warming “as an afterthought or a symptom of wider environmental collapse” (6).
I feel this form of fiction is hard to force a criteria for, and deciding on a concise criteria would require people of several perspectives to decide on one hard criteria in union.
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The government, unable to drive the refugees out by blockading supplies to the island, eventually hired off-duty policemen and gangs to kill or forcibly evict the refugees.
This feels far fetched, but reading this reminds me of the US forced sterilization of black, Hispanic, and indigenous peoples. Specifically it makes me wonder how much people on the mainland are aware of these atrocities done by the government, as I know most people in the US are not taught in school about forced sterilization that took place in their own country.
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- Sep 2022
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Industrial Revolution of the late nineteenth century as the beginning of the Anthropocene, “when analyses of air trapped in polar ice showed the beginning of growing global concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane” as a result of human burning of fossil fuels
A weird connection, but I feel a lot of groups of seemingly unrelated ideas/philosophies connect the common “root” or “escalation” of their crisis as the industrial revolution (for example, radical feminist writers have drawn the conclusion the downfall of woman was worsened by the industrial revolution)
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Our species took its present form in the Pleistocene epoch, which began approximately two and a half million years ago and ended (just) eleven thousand years ago;
I feel this really puts into perspective how insignificant humans are in the grand scheme of the world.
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So, make kin, not babies!
I'm sure this is meant as a joke (a reference to “make love, not war”) however it ties back into a previous point I made about the suggestion of population control.
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Feminists of our time have been leaders in unraveling the supposed natural necessity of ties between sex and gender, race and sex, race and nation, class and race, gender and morphology, sex and reproduction, and reproduction and composing persons
I'm curious why this author didn't cite any examples of this, and why they make it sound more less necessary than applying these mindsets to environmentalism. Perhaps this person, if actually interested, should read up on eco-feminist writers such as Maria Mies and Françoise d'Eaubonne.
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The incomprehensible but sober number of around 11 billion will only hold if current worldwide birth rates of human babies remain low; if they rise again, all bets are off.
I wonder if the author believes in population control, since I have 6 siblings this comment rubs me the wrong way. Even if his wording or the message is unintentional, a spike in population should not to be blamed in harming the world but the larger corporations and laissez-faire attitude people have come to environmentalism.
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Right now, the earth is full of refugees, human and not, without refuge.
I wonder if this take is unique to the writer or if most people in professions similar to their own believe we are “refugees.” If this is the case, who are the natives if not even animals or plants?
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- Aug 2022
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Weathe
Group 1 was here
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