Being cast out
The following text describes artwork "Sleeping man hanging man wallpaper" by Robert Gober which can be viewed here.
1. Does "what troubles the sleep of middle America" mean "what awakens the middle class Americans from the sleep of ignorance"?
2. Does "being cast out" mean "being rejected socially" or "being deported from America"?
3. Does "as" here mean "because of"?
Text:
The wallpaper’s repeated image of a lynching in conjunction with a white man lying in bed, taken from an eiderdown box, is intended to probe the question of what troubles the sleep of middle America, reminding us of the bodies that have been and are still being cast out as being different, other, abject.
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catttt what troubles the sleep of middle America ~ what worries middle-class Americans probably suggesting what worries most Americans. catttt Does "being cast out" mean "being rejected socially" or "being deported from America"? being rejected socially catttt Does "as" here mean "because of"?
- catttt what troubles the sleep of middle America ~ what worries middle-class Americans probably suggesting what worries most Americans.
- catttt Does "being cast out" mean "being rejected socially" or "being deported from America"?
- being rejected socially catttt Does "as" here mean "because of"?
- Yes.
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cattttwhat troubles the sleep of middle America
~ what worries middle-class Americans
probably suggesting
what worries most Americans.
cattttDoes "being cast out" mean "being rejected socially" or "being deported from America"?
being rejected socially
cattttDoes "as" here mean "b
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