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Nervous Condition by Danganrempa

• Aphasia: Aphasia is a disorder that results from damage (usually from a stroke or traumatic brain injury) to areas of the brain that are responsible for language. Aphasia impairs the expression and understanding of language, as well as reading and writing
• Fanon’s perspective and Said’s perspective
• Binary oppositions like west vs east, reason vs faith, science vs religion, masculine vs feminine and so on
• Black man is this .. black man is that… stereotypes
• Black skin, white mask
• No identity can ever exist by itself without an array of opposites….
• Citizens of the cosmos. Hybridity and hybrid identity
• Mulatto= west indians, colour marriage, creole
• Criticism to missionary education
• Identity crisis of the native
• Importance of Language
• Albert Camus’ Plague reference?
• Rhodesians, close to south africa
• White Rhodesians declare independence in 1965 Black Majority became Zimbabwe
• Semi- autobiographical novel
• Bildungs roman
• Cosmopolitanism in the novel
• Inferiority complex, natives feels inferior to colonialist, and copies the colonizer