Kultura a literatura-přednášky-zápisy

Postcolonial feminisms

• Audre Lorde – Zami – how she discovered that she was lesbian – several motives for being different, she is different because she is a black and because of her sexuality

• Gloria Anzaldua – Borderlands

Marxist Theories (Ideology and Discourse)

• Karl Marx – alienation – the German philosopher – he tried to explain why the proletariat ????

• Base and superstructure

• Marx says that a society is a system that is the result of the activity of 2 ??subsistant?? – base, structure – ideas that circulate in society in time and they are influenced by base

• Literature – it is a part of superstructure

• School, the press, the police –

• Slavoj Zizek –

• Marxist understanding of society in novel Humphrey Clinker

• The base → the economic system – it all starts with money - in the book people are rich, don’t have to work

• Hierarchy between rich and poor people and also hierarchy between working class

• Humphrey doesn’t belong to rich even though biologically he should