• World literature- refers to literature from all over the world, including African

literature, Arabic literature, American literature, Latin American literature, Caribbean

Literature, Asian literature, European literature and Australasian literature.

• Commercialism has celebrated and romanticized the meeting of a white man (John
Smith) and an American Indian (Pocahontas) in full length films and animated
cartoons.

There was never a claim from John Smith that he had a romantic relationship with

Pocahontas.

• Mistral’s advocacy

child welfare and protection

• “Tiny Feet” deals with the social evil of child prostitution.

( the other interpretation of the poem is poverty)

• Claudio Spiniak

-High-profile businessman Claudio Spiniak, who was at the epicenter of the 2003 orgy
scandal that shook the political scene and shocked the public, has received his final
sentence. The Supreme Court increased Spiniak’s sentence last week Thursday from
seven to 12 years for the sexual abuse of four underage prostitutes. The Supreme Court
also convicted the businessman of facilitating prostitution and producing pornography.

-Chilean, In jail since 2004 for being a practitioner of pedophilia .

In October, Claudio Spiniak, 55, and six colleagues, were charged with using a luxury
gym he owns for sadomasochistic orgies with children. He has also been accused of
producing and distributing child pornography.

-For a long time child prostitution is untouched in Chile because the people involved are
rich, powerful and influential and there are some who are identified with the government.

• The cluster of images used in “Tiny Feet” consists of tuberose, tiny feet, snow, and soil.

• The central image in “Tiny Feet” is the redolent tuberose.

• blossoms of bright light- This is the image used by Mistral to signify the child
prostitute’s potential to become a person of dignity and worthy member of society.
 • Negritude is both political and literary movement that rejects western racism and
celebrates identity in all its cultural richness.

• Pocahontas

They named her Matoaka, though she is better known as Pocahontas, which means
"Little Wanton," a playful, frolicsome little girl.

• Nantaquaus- Indian name of John Smith

• The New World- This film portrays the founding of Jamestown.

• Corn- This is the crop identified with Virginia which, in the same film was supposed to
have been introduced to the white men by Indians.

• Persona- A poet employs an imaginary speaker in the poem. Persona is the literary term
for such speaker.

• Wole Soyinka-The Nobel Prize in Literature 1986

• Telephone Conversation- Western Racism

• Red booth, red pillar box, red double-tiered omnibus- These are the objective
correlatives used by Soyinka to concretely represent anger that begins to well up in the
heart of the African speaker in “Telephone Conversation”

• Binary Opposites- These are the pairs of concepts or ideas that are usually held in
opposition of each other.

• white race and black race- these are the binary opposites in Soyinka’s telephone
conversation

• sarcasm- the African caller’s response to the racist lady

• racism- a mindset, an attitude, or behavior that considers or treats one race as inferior to
another

-study your notes

-do not answer numbers 34, 35 and 40

-for essay, choose between the first and second question only (choose only one question).