In Gundolf’s session for gbl 101 faculty, he played he ted adichie”the Danger of a Single Story” 

compare her story to Dr. T rin min ha–ideas of authoritarian voice , colonial story telling (assumption of narrator as ceentral, telling the story of “others”), here are the natives doing such and such, see how they blah blah blah (reference to the film) [speaking nearby]

John Locke’s story about africa (beasts)

Kippling: half devil/half child

The beginning of western story, single story of Africa / African

she said: SHOW A PEOPLE AS ONE THING AND ONLY ONE THING OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND THAT IS WHAT THEY BECOME

(like the slope of domestic abuse–s/he begins to think she is stupid/ugly/careless etc…no one refutes it, reality is skewed)

(Like trump’s stampede on hilary, bengazi, immigration, the border, biden’s age…)

(SIMPLIFICATION of things/people)

ADD TO THIS the problem with attention (Stolen Focus)

Stories are about power

ability to make is the definitive story of THE OTHER

Start the story of America with xxx instead of conflict with the british

american psycho: “such a shame that younger americans are serial murderers”

to insist on only negative stories is to flatten me

TO FLATTEN ME

alice walker: regain paradise

What is feminism?

Chemamanda Adichie

I don’t want you to eat my dog.