2. Vocab challenge
3. Let's get to the reading:
Teraloyna:
- This is the story of the multiracial inhabitants of an island in the Indian Ocean confronting change when they come in contact with South African mainlanders.
- Is the narrator an insider or an outsider? And, an insider/outsider to what community?
- How would you describe the tone?
- Is the expression of the "us and them" dichotomy a dominant culture idea? Does a minority perpetuate the dichotomy as well? Or is this dichotomy based on an insider/outsider paradigm?
- What is Gordimer asserting about the ideas of a multiracial culture? In what ways is she playing with the utopian ideas often presented with a one race idea?
- What greater commentary is Gordimer making about humans? How does she make her ideas accessible?
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