Emigree Flashcards

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Who wrote the emigree

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Carol rumens

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Context of emigree

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Emigree is the feminine version of emigrant
Location of a city is unclear perhaps only ever existed in the emigres imagination

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Title emigree

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Female immigrant not in a home country

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Speak of emigree

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First person speaker
Explores the pain of exile caused by conflict

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Tone

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Pain
remembrance will always remember her home country

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Quote showing she will never forget her home country

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There once was a country I left it as a child but my memory of it is sunlight clear

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Nothing can change the image of her home

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It may be that war it may be sick with tyrants but I am branded by an impression of sunlight

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Piece of her city will always be with her

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But child vocabulary I carried here like a hollow doll opens and spills a grammar

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No longer welcome

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They accuse me of being dark in there free city

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Form

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No progression in the narrative to show that the narrator is stuck in the past

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