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Amagar diapositives
Amagar diapositives
THE FUSION OF STYLES Magical Realism Comparative Literature
Diana Coso Molina
12th June, 2012
Important Elements Hybridity: Linked to post-colonialism. Combination of opposites as urban and (més)
Important Elements Hybridity: Linked to post-colonialism. Combination of opposites as urban and rural, or Western and Indigenous.
Irony in the author’s perspective: the author must respect the Magic, and it must be synchronized with Reality.
Authorial Reticence: lack of clear opinions about the credibility of the world.
The Supernatural and the Natural: the supernatural is integrated within the norms of perception of the narrator. (menys)
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Amagar diapositives
Amagar diapositives
LOCATION: It is located in the Southern hemisphere between the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
SIZE: (més)
LOCATION: It is located in the Southern hemisphere between the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
SIZE: Eight million square km, of which almost three million are desert or semi-desert.
POPULATION: 18 million persons.
Australia is the flattest, driest and most isolated continent on the planet.
NATIONAL CAPITAL: Camberra.
Australia, “Terra Incognita” (menys)
English is the National Language of Australia.
“ (...) spoken by native-born Australians, and by (més)
English is the National Language of Australia.
“ (...) spoken by native-born Australians, and by other inhabitants of Australia whose speech and idiom in English has converged on the dialect sufficiently to be identified with it.”
Definition of Australian English according toThe Macquaire Dictionary National Language (menys)
Australian English is different from the British, American or other Englishes.
There are also (més)
Australian English is different from the British, American or other Englishes.
There are also autochthonous languages in Australia; the surviving Aboriginal languages.
There are at least 40 languages other than English and the Aboriginal ones.
Some important facts about Australian languages (menys)
Linguistic difference between British English and the Australian variety: same words with (més)
Linguistic difference between British English and the Australian variety: same words with different meaning.
Lexical elements incorporated from the Aboriginal languages
Wombat
Boomerang Humpy
Australian English (menys)
Aboriginal LanguagesAt the verge of Extintion Between 250 or 300 Aboriginal languages were spoken (més)
Aboriginal LanguagesAt the verge of Extintion Between 250 or 300 Aboriginal languages were spoken before the European invasion.
Only half of the number above are still spoken.
Just 20 Aboriginal languages are taught to children across the country.
Speakers of aboriginal languages are often bi-lingual or multilingual.
Aboriginal languages are extremely complex both in grammar and vocabulary.
(menys)
Half of the Aboriginal languages disappeared, the only survivors are now spoken in Northern (més)
Half of the Aboriginal languages disappeared, the only survivors are now spoken in Northern Australia
Linguistic impoverishment and the extinction of the Cultural Heritage Degradation of the Cultural Heritage after British Invasion (menys)
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Amagar diapositives
Amagar diapositives
The importance of Water A source of life
“Her parched throat could scarcely manage the words” (més)
The importance of Water A source of life
“Her parched throat could scarcely manage the words” (159)
Lavé Tete : Purification
“She had found herself growing less opposed to being bathed” (221)
Salvation
“ Those Ibos was stepping! And they didn’t bother getting back into the small boats drawned up here- boats take too much time. They just kept walking right on out over the river.” (38) (menys)
The importance of Clothing “…in the way she always did, she would quickly note the stranger’s (més)
The importance of Clothing “…in the way she always did, she would quickly note the stranger’s clothes.” (48)
“Avey Jonhson shucked her gloves off her hands with such violence the fingers turned inside out. The hat slanted to one side on her head found itself being hurled into the nether darkness of a corner.” (144)
“Could this be the same well-dressed woman with the half-dozen suitcases who had arrived the day before?”. (153) (menys)
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