English
11 – Fall 2001
Amardeep
Singh
“Introduction
to the Global Novel”
Paper
Topic #2
Length:
4 pages
Rough
Draft Due: Monday October 29
Final
Draft Due: Friday November 2
Bring
in 2 copies of Rough Drafts.
1. The
English Patient
- The Status of Women. The
English Patient is full of technical details about mining, desert
expeditions, and the historical complexities of World War II, details we
might not ordinarily associate with women. Are women really marginalized
from the technical and historical aspects of the novel? You might also
approach this question as one about women and war: if this is a novel
about war, how do women enter into the picture?
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2. Nervous
Conditions
- The value of
“education.” In Nervous Conditions, it seems that the education a person
receives, the less he or she actually knows. That is to say,
education in this community has the effect of cutting people from the
others around them, alienating them from their own culture. We see this
especially profoundly with Nhamo and Nyasha. How is Tambudzai’s experience
different? What is the value of education for her?
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