#mrpip

[yourtrashcollector]

I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I’d found him – not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or splashing around in one of the hill streams, but in a book. No one had told us kids to look there for a friend. Or that you could slip inside the skin of another. Or travel to another place with marshes, and where, to our ears, the bad people spoke like pirates.

Lloyd Jones, Mr Pip

[juliopison]

CINE Mr. Pip (2012) Título original: Mr. Pip Nueva Zelanda Dirección: Andrew Adamson Idioma: Inglés con Subtítulos en Español

Atención: Solo para ver en PC o Notebook Para ver el Film pulsa el Link: https://artecafejcp.wixsite.com/escenario-cafejcp/post/mr-pip-2012

Reparto: Hugh Laurie · Xzannjah Matsi · Healesville Joel · Eka Darville · Kerry Fox · Florence Korokoro

Género: Drama. Bélico | Enseñanza. Años 90

Sinopsis: Hacia 1991, durante los primeros compases de la guerra civil que asoló la remota isla de Bougainville (Papúa Nueva Guinea), el señor Watts (Hugh Laurie), un excéntrico hombre blanco, decide reabrir las puertas de la escuela y ejercer de maestro. Su método es combinar la lectura en voz alta de capítulos de Grandes esperanzas, su novela favorita de Charles Dickens, con la intervención de las gentes del pueblo que quieran compartir consejos prácticos acerca de cómo sobrevivir en su entorno. De esta forma, el improvisado maestro logra atrapar el interés de sus jóvenes alumnos, cautivados por las aventuras y desventuras de Pip, el joven huérfano protagonista de la novela de Dickens

Críticas: Una historia llena de valores morales, éticos , humanos …. narrados desde una perspectiva única, acompañados de una buena puesta en escena, una excelente banda sonora y una infinidad de elementos que la van haciendo especial. -Robert Lancaster: Revista Cine 1

Posición en rankings FA: 31 Mejores películas neozelandesas

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[holdon-zi-erza]

Watching a beautiful film Mr Pip ♥ I turn on the TV when Hugh Laurie who plays a teacher said : " it is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home." I felt strange ; I don't know why I'm impressed by the story , the feeling , drama and of course Matilda . I liked also that the whole story was like a journey through Charles Dickens's book " great expectations" . ♥♥♥ #Zi #MrPip

[thebestmoviestvseries]

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[lanismood]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRn3gr8Pt_o)

[oib-lfs-2016]

Gender in Postcolonial Lit (The Bechdel Test)

Concepts/Theories/Ideas

The Bechdel Test:  A series of three, sometimes four questions that determine whether or not a work of fiction can be considered “sexist”, or at least genderly biased. The four questions are:

Are there at least two women in it?

Are they named?

Do they talk to each other?

Do they talk about anything other than men?

In Mr Pip:

Passes the Bechdel test.  

There are plenty of female characters, maybe even more than male characters: Matilda, Dolores, Daniel’s grandmother, the women of the village, Mr Watt’s estranged wife, Grace Watts etc. In Bougainville’s matriarchal society, the women is the one who takes care of the family, gives life lessons (lectures during Mr.Watts class) and transmits the family knowledge.

All female characters are given names : Dolores, Matilda, Grace. More than that they are designated in a respectful manner, usually by “Ms.”

Almost all the women have some kind of interaction with each other, except for Grace who doesn’t directly interact with anyone, but is described as having done so in the past. The women of the village speak to each other, Matilda and Dolores seem to have regular mother-daughter conversations (until the redskins begin causing chaos), and even though Matilda doesn’t seem to have a lot of friends; whatever female classmates she does mention are always referred to in a relatively benign manner and she describes having a pleasant relationship with them.

Interestingly enough, men are very often a central part of the female characters’ conversations. But not in the way the Bechdel test implies. Whilst the Bechdel test implies that a conversation about men is a negative thing, usually relevant to sex, power, marriage or money (as it quite often), Mr Pip involves conversations about Matilda’s father which are usually about his life in Australia, or how much both mother and daughter miss him. Other conversations often revolve around Mr Watts, but they are obviously free of any kind of sexual undertone. They usually relate to interesting things worth debating like religion, education, literature, morals and beliefs.

Overall, Mr Pip serves as an example of how Postcolonial literature can challenge not only racial perceptions, but gender-base perceptions too.

In Heart of Darkness:

Fails the Bechdel test.

There are very few female characters, much less any memorable ones other than Marlow’s aunt, Kurtz’s intended and the black mistress.

Unsurprisingly, none of the women are ever named. They are only referred to as an extension of the man they are related or attached to. “Kurtz’s”, “Marlow’s”. They become almost a possession.

As expected, none of the women ever interact with each other. Of course, we still have to take into account that not all of them are on the same continent, and none of them know each other or knowingly have any sort of relation to each other.  

Although none of the women ever interact, whenever we do hear them speak, it is almost always in relation to men or about men in general. Marlow’s aunt is only mentioned because she does Marlow a favor and goes out of her way to help him. Similarly, Kurtz’s intended only ever has a conversation with Marlow about Kurtz.

Overall, HOD fails the Bechdel test miserably. Its portrayal of women can be summarised in the words of Joseph Conrad himself, “It is a story of the Congo. There is no love interest and no woman - only incidentally”.

  The Poems:

Colonial Girls School → passes the Bechdel test.

this evolves in an “only girls” school, so the context is very feminine.

Olive Senior, the author, is a woman. There isn’t the mention of any other names, but the use of “our” lets us know of the presence of other young girls.

the girls don’t talk amongst themselves but are talked to by the same person, the one with the “pale northern eyes”.

the girls do not talk at all about men, but about “Kings and Queens of England” or “declensions in Latin”.

another interesting point: the girls’ gender is being denied by the colonizers: “denied our sex in gym tunics and bloomers”.

  Checking Out Me History→ feminine figures but doesn’t pass the Bechdel test.

Agard mentions Nanny de Maroon, Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole.

However, the feminine figures are just historical references but not characters in this poem.

[oib-lfs-2016]

Money / Economy in Postcolonial literature

In General

The white man’s main duty was also placing their culture in the world economically and socially. European colonial powers introduced their own monetary system into the countries they administered. As countries achieved independence during the 20th century, some retained the new denominations that had been introduced, though others renamed their currencies for various reasons.

Despite organisations of all sorts, we still notice a strong contrast between the eastern and the western countries (power/wealth).

Colonization boosted the country of the colonizer, like Belgium during the reign of King Leopold II, or Britain with India’s vast resources, but after the independence of the colonized countries, the economy is trying to be rebuilt but for the most of them, the situation (unemployment, no government…) plunges them to chaos.

For example, Haiti is the poorest country on earth and we can argue it was due to colonization.

In the Poems

The Immigrants

They leave their homeland with nothing. Strong images of starvation and poverty.

Colonial Girls School

“aristocratic whispers” -> this quote expresses the fact that well-off colonizers started imposing the colonizing country’s will.

In Mr. Pip

The colonizers came to Bougainville to exploit the mine, which will give them money.

But this has negative consequences as the inhabitants get little money from the resources of their island, so they’re poor, and they lose their possessions a few times when the “redskins” empty their houses and burn their belongings.

Thanks to money, we can argue that characters migrate like when Pip goes to London.

“He spoke of being poor; and of giving an old beggar woman the last of his economy” → seen as generous because maybe he’s the only white man on the island that has that good principle (compared to the colonizer) +  contrasts with their lives on the island (they wouldn’t afford). 

"Money and social standing don't come into it"

In Heart of Darkness

In Heart Of Darkness, there is a struggle between characters wanting a promotion and Kurtz getting most of the ivory on the market.

We do guess that Kurtz was making decent savings, but did he used it at all or did he send the money back to his wife?

We believe that Marlow had some money to go to Africa and have a boat.

"To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire"

VOCAB:

Cultural imperialism: direct result of economic domination of one culture by another.

[oib-lfs-2016]

8 Things The History Books Don't Tell Us About Native People

Relates to the idea of the single story and the oppression of the minority.

Note that number 4 (or was it 5?) talks about "redskins"