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Flashcards by Lisza Neumeier, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Lisza Neumeier
about 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What is the difference between a person and a character? | a character in a text is... -constructed through language – becomes a mental construct – judged on the basis of our experience – question of consistency – How do we know about a character? –Characterisation |
| Characterisation questions | • How is the character described? • By whom is the character described? • Where does characterisation happen? • How reliable is the source of information? • How does the characterisation contribute to our mental construct of the character? • What connections can be made? |
| John Bull | J o h n A r b u t h n o t ( 1 6 6 7 - 1 7 3 5 ) , ' T h e History of John Bull': "an honest plaindealing fellow, choleric, bold, and of a very inconstant temper" -used in Propaganda (eg. WW1 and and in connection with Uncle Sam (The Great Repechement, Alliance that was formed between USA and UK in 1776) |
| chicken tikka massala story and debate that follows speech? | Robin Cook (foreign minister) who made a speech: chicken tikka speech and claimed that there is no such race as the British and the country has always been a mixture In 2001 it turned out that British’s national dish was Chicken tikka massala (people ate it more than Fish & Chips) You would think it’s an Indian Dish, but it’s not In 19th century in a part of London full of Bangladesh dish, a white person went into restaurant and asked for sth with chicken and he got chicken tikka (chopped chicken) and it was too dry for the man and then the chef added some sauce → chicken tikka massala was created it is not a national dish in the true sense, it was constructed following by a request of a white Englishman in the context of an Indian kitchen and Englishman tried to come up with the taste of the Englishman (case study in cultural studies) when it came out that chicken tikka massala was the national dish, there was a long debate (also about nationality and about the ‘’British race’’) still debate: what is it that defines us? what sets us off from the rest of the wordl?.. |
| The Great British Bakeoff | -baking show -they’re giving challenges and are voted out if they don’t succed -huge success -home baking focus and thetics are actually English (country fair, pre Industrial settings, …) but being sold as British/united Many journalists have commented on the fact that the bakers come from all kinds of countries, backgrounds, .. → very inclusive programme The Guardian article: not entirely classless: some people are too poor to even bake in Britain (technology, machines, ingredients, ..) not really pre-Industrial settings -spin offs in other countries; format gets transferred but things change (eg. in America Route 66 posters, …) |
| British national identity in the 21st century historic reasons | -English (England including Scots, Irish)- vs. Britishness (just everyone in Great Britain) -demise of Empire (end of British empire as reason of why the British are so busy to define Britishness; Empire was long defining feature of Britain because it basically meant that they were THE force of the world) -devolution of power (devolved parliaments)(Scots, Western Ireland people, Irish can define themself; but British cannot define themselves easily); possible Scottish independence (Referendum in 2014, they stayed in the Union, but still issue) -relationship with EU (F, G especially) and US has always been problematic historical explanation: Britain has been suffering a lot during the Second World War (sometimes still mad at Germany and Austria) Brexit.. |
| British national identity in the 21st century pt II | -migration and its legislation migration in the Second half of 20th century until now has always been a country of migration -role of science In late 90s show on British telly: 100 % British? where people have had their genes tested for national genes (you can’t have national genes) showed a very racist right-wing woman who was very conservative and she was shown to have afro-asian genes (lol) thing is that to be ‘100% English’ was a concern, they wanted to be 100% English -availability of historical data |
| Union Jack significance | -Union Jack ‘defines’ Britishness for British people -after Tony Blair came into Parliament the Union Jack became quite used! -‘’Cool Britannia’’ -people before Tony Blair focused on Englishness, and Tony Blair wanted to focus on Britain identity |
| Imagined Communities by whom? | A nation "is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion" Benedict Anderson. Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. 1983. uses it to explain nationalism |
| St. Georges flag | Nike advertisment with the St. Georges flag on body some people thought that the ad shows violence (color referring to blood) other people complained that the ad features the St. Georges cross and was brought in context with this ‘nationalist violence propaganda’’ some people meant that it resembled Jesus’s cross some people meant that Rooney was not wearing shorts some thought it was harmless, some didn’t at all |
| denotation | conventional, dicitionary meaning of a word or sign (this is simply St. Georges cross) |
| connotation | associations and cultural contexts that are interpreted by people (here the whole accusations of violence, religion came in) |
| Dunkirk Spirit | Dunkirk spirit: rescue mission (338,000 men plucked from the beaches of northern France) Dunkirk: city in France (in the Bretagne) In 1940 (in WW2) British and French had been cut off of by the German soldiers on a piece of beach. German soldiers had advanced and they’d cut off the retreat routs for the British and French. British did send boats over and rescued many thousands of soldiers. wasn’t such a huge military success, but many volunteers like fishermen, lifeguards that picked up some English and French soldiers to take back episode of retreat - was a defeat but became known as the Dunkirk spirit in a sense that the British wouldn’t allow the Germans to win. historical reference to notion of imaginary community Dunkirk spirit sometimes evoked in the media in a sense of belonging together. imagined communities: a sense of shared notions/history/culture... but imaginary ; but still some kind of togetherness! |
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