Text Overview and Key Argument (VCE SSCE English): Flashcards
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Title & year of Adichie's TED Talk
Title & year of Adichie's TED Talk
The Danger of a Single Story, 2009
Definition of 'single story'
Definition of 'single story'
Simplified, one-dimensional narrative reducing people/cultures
Where was TED Talk delivered?
Where was TED Talk delivered?
TEDGlobal in Oxford, England
Fide example lesson
Fide example lesson
Seeing only poverty robbed him of dignity & missed complexity
What did American roommate expect?
What did American roommate expect?
Tribal music, no English, catastrophe narratives about Africa
Professor's verdict on her novel
Professor's verdict on her novel
Inauthentic (characters not suffering/starving enough)
Problem with stereotypes (Adichie)
Problem with stereotypes (Adichie)
Not that they're untrue, but that they're incomplete
3 ways single stories harm
3 ways single stories harm
Rob dignity, create power imbalances, perpetuate stereotypes
Solution to single stories
Solution to single stories
Embrace multiple stories, seek balance of stories
What we regain rejecting single stories
What we regain rejecting single stories
A kind of paradise - empathy & shared humanity