1. Identities in the Spaces of Flows & Fragmentations Stardom and The English Patient

2. Outline Causes for Flows & Fragmentations Stardom The English Patient For Next Week

3. Causes for Fragmentations & Flows The two World Wars and the wars afterwards; Challenges to traditional beliefs (religion, humanity; e.g. Darwinism, Freud, Nietzsche); Capitalism (from national to international) + Telecommunication Contemporary Flows of people, commodities, capitals, information, and virus.  Global culture,  “ The center cannot hold ” (e.g. nation, family, stable sense of identity, etc.)

4. Stardom What do we know about Tina Menzhal? How is her life different from another model, Toni? What makes her famous, media or her beauty? How does she get known to the public? How are media, and the different kinds of TV programs, treated in this film? How are “ artists ” such as Bruce Taylor and Phillip Gascon positioned in relation to media?

5. Tina on videos: her words & Comments on her “ I can ’ t talk ” in Gascon ’ s interview; Interviews of her: e.g. in front of the restaurant (by Michelle), report on Bruce Taylor ’ s ad project (Fashion I). [Her sister ’ s] the one with the brains. Not blonde “ on the outside ”  her actions in the fur episode and with Blaine

6. The Men around Tina From Phillip Gascon to Barry Levine; (flirting with Steve) Fur episode  ambassador Blainde de Gastillon Ad  Steve Bourque The agent; Bruce Taylor

7. Stardom: Tina on and off videos 1. Her life told on these videos: e.g. Her first status climbing: Getting the award of Lion ’ s Club ’ s annual athletic achievement  The photographer interviewed  the model agent interviewed; Tina ’ s association with the men (e.g. Gascon, Blaine) Tina and her father

8. Stardom: Tina and Media 2. Trashy TV programs of different types Interviews of and Peeping on celebrities: Celebrity Hunt; websites Interview of P Gascon -- sexual implications; Of Barry Levine Gossip and Sensational Debates “ Dr Evelyn Loo: Coping ” : his mother interviewed & Tina; TV forum Pyschic shows (healing of Ruth, Barry ’ s wife) Surprises

9. Stardom: Tina on videos Videos used as promotion: e.g. soft opening of “ A Model Life ” Portrait of Phillip Gascon; Pervasive camera: A man talking to the agent; “ I hate God ”  Cinema verite (Bruce Taylor)  What does superficiality mean?

10. Issue 1: Reality & Video Presentations E.g. Tina ’ s visit to Paris – TV news of Muslim Bomb – Cornwall ’ s “ Dr. Evelyn Loo ” report Bruce Taylor

11. Issue 2: Image Tina ’ s images – change according to the circumstances Global image Used by multinational industry – WCM and Nagashimi (involved in different national cultures --Canadian  French  American  Japan)

12. Issue 3: Model ’ s Lives Tina & Tony

13. Michael Ondaatje Michael Ondaatje was born on September 12, 1943 in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). As a result of his father's alcoholism, OndaatjeÕs parents eventually separated in 1954 and he moved to England with his mother 1962-64, Ondaatje attended Bishop's University in Lennoxville, Quebec. 1965 -- B.A. at University of Toronto

14. Michael Ondaatje Criticized for criticized for not writing much about Canada and Sri Lanka, or writing in a “ politically correct ” way. the use of violence (e.g. the inclusion of atomic bomb)  his response: trying to find a balance between ‘ gentleness and violence ’” (Leckie 29).

15. The English Patient: Setting Places: 1.the Villa San Girolamo in Tuscany; a nunnery, a field hospital, and a besieged fortress e.g. 11, 12, 29, 43; 2.South Cairo; the desert; 3.Kip: Lahore  the English countryside Time: 1.right after WWII 1945; 2. 1943 the first Canadian infantry p. 49; 3.South Cairo1930-1938: 1936

16. EP: Chaps 1-2 The Villa: Hana ’ s taking care of EP, her reading, the villa, the desert, and the desert tribes; In Near Ruins: Hana and Caravaggio in near ruins; their respective experience of the War and its influences on them, their memories, the arrival of Kip

17. Questions about Fragmentation and Reconstruction How does the War influence the three characters we have seen so far? Why do you think the desert winds and the tribe ’ s customs are important? How is the EP related to them? How do the Bedouins treat the EP, as opposed to Hana ’ s way of treating him? Reading: What is the importance of reading — for Hana and for the EP? Memory: Why is the novel ’ s narration fragmentary? What do the characters ’ memories reveal about them?

18. The War ’ s influences on the Villa Pp. 11-12, 29, On the characters EP Hana p. 7 scurry in the mind; a nomad; Caravaggio p. 34,

19. How do they heal themselves Mutual support; Reading Memories and reconstruction of memories.

20. Memories EP ’ s Hana ’ s

21. Next Week Chaps III: Kip ’ s presence in the Villa and his past; Chaps IV – VI: Katherine and Almasy