TR3.5

There There Discussion

Houjun Liu 2021-09-27 Mon 12:00

1 There There Discussion Prep

Significance of "head" => sense of identity.

  • Difference between ubunaty vs. uniformatiy
    • Head is a sense of identity
    • Head as the uniqueness of each individuals
  • Head as an object to be paraded, a mark of a person's identity and humanity
  • "Head rolling": turning onto itself, snoball, amiplification
  • Cannot be stopped rolling => propergation can't stop

1.2 Irony

The book as a mark of irony

  • Land-deal meal vs thankgiving meal => the former, a celebration; the latter, mass murder
  • Native Americans as the stewards of the land, but ending up being painted as an out-group