Critics (Small Island + TRF) Flashcards

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‘Homeplace’

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Bell Hooks

  • A place where one can nurture spirit free
    from oppression and hate
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‘British but ___ at _____’

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‘British but not at home’ - Sue Brown

  • How Jamaicans felt in England
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‘Citizen to _______’

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‘Citizen to suspect’ - Dalia Mogahead
- Following 9/11 muslims became

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‘Hybrid identities are never total and ________ in themselves - instead they ______ perpetually in ______’

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‘Hybrid identities are never total and complete in themselves - instead they remain perpetually in motion’ - Bhabha

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‘Sense of ______ and _________ may be __________ split’

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‘Sense of identity and belonging may be eternally split’ - John Mcleod

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’ Hortense creates a _________ in which the England she ______ is not the real England at all’

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‘Hortense creates a narrative in which the England she inhabits is not the real England at all’ - Balfourth

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‘Eventually ______________ wake up from the American _______’

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‘Eventually immigrants wake up from the American dream’

Karla Villavicencio

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Susheila Nasta critical quote about ‘Lonely Londoners’

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‘Encapsulates the romance and disenchantment of an imagined city that was both magnet and nightmare for its new colonial citizens’

(Post-war Caribbean migration to Britain)

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‘America is a double __________, which symbolises Changez’s __________ love for both a country and a __________’

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‘America is a double entendre, which symbolises Changez’s unrequited love for both a country and a woman’

Bounar Fateh

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‘Discusses strained relationship between east and west and discloses prejudices that rule the American society’

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‘Discusses strained relationship between east and west and discloses prejudices that rule the American society’ (Hamid)

Zindziuviene

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‘London encapsulates the romance and disenchantment of an imagined city that was both a magnet and nightmare for its new colonial citizens’

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‘London encapsulates the romance and disenchantment of an imagined city that was both a magnet and nightmare for its new colonial citizens’

Susheila Nasta (post-war caribbean migration)

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‘A ___________ land that despite its glittering _____ turns out to be an ___________’

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‘A promised land that despite its glittering lure turns out to be an illusion’

Susheila Nasta (post-war caribbean migration)

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‘home is a lived experience of locality’

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‘home is a lived experience of locality’

Brah

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Avtar Brah’s definition of multi-locationality

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The internalised battle of negotiating allegiance between new homes and the homeland

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Homi K Bhabha’s definition of cultural hybridity

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The internalised mix/blend of cultures and identities

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Louise Bennett-Coverley’s definition of ‘Colonization in reverse’

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When the host country becomes transformed by migration, it expands, mixes and comes to represent a new home