Class #5: Cloud Atlas 4ENGL 10: Global Fictions

Jeon

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Shifting gears…

Movies with Multiple Storylines, 1994-2007

Babel (2006)-Alejandro

González Iñárritu

Worlding

Movies with Multiple Storylines, 1994-2007

What is the relationship between authorial mastery

and colonial mastery?Why is the worldmaking project of the multiple

storyline film considered prestigious?

NARRATIVE è METANARRATIVE

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Opening of Magnolia

(1999)

FAMILY => NETWORK

Multiple story plots dissemble material connections (family, history, etc.) in order to

posit more abstract systemic relations.They break down existing social formations in order to rebuild them

in alternate forms.

Narrative about social group => Metanarrative about social system

WTO Aesthetics!

Cloud Atlas opening

Quiz!

§ Please put away all electronic devices and books. You may use your notes.

§ Take out a piece of paper and write your name at the top.

§ Also write clearly your section number and section instructor.

§ Keep your eyes on your own work. Look how easy it is to see if people are cheating (left)!

§ On the next slide there will be two quizzes, take the one corresponding to your section instructor.

§ TAs: Eun Young Seong and Manuel Del AltoSections: 1) M. 12-12:50pm – PSCB 210 (Seong)

2) W. 12:12:50pm – PSCB 210 (Del Alto)3) M. 1-1:50pm – PSCB 210 (Seong)4) W. 1-1:50pm – PSCB 210 (Del Alto)

§ Ready?

Seong

1. What is “Knuckle Sandwich”?

2. Fill in the blank (doesn’t have to be word for word, but it has to be reasonably close): “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: __________________________.” (Marx)

3. List the following characters in order of the year of birth from furthest in the past to the furthest in the future. [Meronym, Seer Rhee, Autua, Vyvyan Ayrs, Luisa Rey]

4. What is “techno-orientalism?

5. Who is your favorite protagonist OR least favorite in Cloud Atlas? Why?

Del Alto

1. What is a First Contact narrative?

2. List the following characters in order of the year of birth from furthest in the past to the furthest in the future. [Meronym, Seer Rhee, Autua, Vyvyan Ayrs, Luisa Rey]

3. Fill in the blank (doesn’t have to be word for word, but it has to be reasonably close): Cloud Atlas focuses on the problem of the minority by emphasizing _______relations over ______relations.

4. Who was Luisa Rey’s father (describe him; don’t need his exact name)?

5. Which is the best or worst written chapter in Cloud Atlas? Why?