Checking Out Me History Flashcards
Key themes/surface meaning?
racial identity and history are important, phonetic style to capture their voice. Conflict between contrast of what we are taught and what we are not.
Deeper meaning?
Our culture ignores what it consider unimportant, we ‘whitewash’ history. We marginalise achievements/impact of other cultures. We are neglecting to include this wider influence.
Quote 1 and explanation?
‘dem tell me’ - repetition, suggest they cannot think about it for themselves, they are constantly barraged. Phonetic language, group, outsider, commanding
Quote 2 and explanation?
‘I carving out me identity’ - violent metaphor, expresses the resistance and need to create something which cannot be removed. Starting from scratch, time and energy.
Quote 3 and explanation?
‘De cow who jump over de moon’ - nursery rhyme, care more about the fictional people than real people, even are trying to implant cultural identity from childhood
Structure?
Alternates from historical and fictional figures from Caribbean and British culture, expanding on the differences between them. British skipped over with little respect over Caribbean,
Poet?
Agard