Critics (Small Island + TRF) Flashcards
‘Homeplace’
Bell Hooks
- A place where one can nurture spirit free
from oppression and hate
‘British but ___ at _____’
‘British but not at home’ - Sue Brown
- How Jamaicans felt in England
‘Citizen to _______’
‘Citizen to suspect’ - Dalia Mogahead
- Following 9/11 muslims became
‘Hybrid identities are never total and ________ in themselves - instead they ______ perpetually in ______’
‘Hybrid identities are never total and complete in themselves - instead they remain perpetually in motion’ - Bhabha
‘Sense of ______ and _________ may be __________ split’
‘Sense of identity and belonging may be eternally split’ - John Mcleod
’ Hortense creates a _________ in which the England she ______ is not the real England at all’
‘Hortense creates a narrative in which the England she inhabits is not the real England at all’ - Balfourth
‘Eventually ______________ wake up from the American _______’
‘Eventually immigrants wake up from the American dream’
Karla Villavicencio
Susheila Nasta critical quote about ‘Lonely Londoners’
‘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)
‘America is a double __________, which symbolises Changez’s __________ love for both a country and a __________’
‘America is a double entendre, which symbolises Changez’s unrequited love for both a country and a woman’
Bounar Fateh
‘Discusses ___________ relationship between ______ and _______ and discloses prejudices that rule the ______________ society’
‘Discusses strained relationship between east and west and discloses prejudices that rule the American society’ (Hamid)
Zindziuviene
‘London encapsulates the romance and _______________ of an imagined city that was both a __________ and nightmare for its new ___________ citizens’
‘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)
‘A ___________ land that despite its glittering _____ turns out to be an ___________’
‘A promised land that despite its glittering lure turns out to be an illusion’
Susheila Nasta (post-war caribbean migration)
‘home is a _______ experience of ___________’
‘home is a lived experience of locality’
Brah
Avtar Brah’s definition of multi-locationality
The internalised battle of negotiating allegiance between new homes and the homeland
Homi K Bhabha’s definition of cultural hybridity
The internalised mix/blend of cultures and identities
Louise Bennett-Coverley’s definition of ‘Colonization in reverse’
When the host country becomes transformed by migration, it expands, mixes and comes to represent a new home
Who coined the term cultural ‘melting pot’ and what does it describe?
- Israel Zangwill (1908)
- Describes a fusion/mixture of nationalities, cultures and ethnicity
‘Post 9/11 __________ who are visibly different _____________ greater levels of __________’
‘Post 9/11 migrants who are visibly different experience greater levels of hostility’
McKay
“we use __________ to get ____________ as taking on a certain _________”
“we use language to get recognised as taking on a certain identity”
Gee
