Emigree Flashcards
Who wrote the emigree
Carol rumens
Context of emigree
Emigree is the feminine version of emigrant
Location of a city is unclear perhaps only ever existed in the emigres imagination
Title emigree
Female immigrant not in a home country
Speak of emigree
First person speaker
Explores the pain of exile caused by conflict
Tone
Pain
remembrance will always remember her home country
Quote showing she will never forget her home country
There once was a country I left it as a child but my memory of it is sunlight clear
Nothing can change the image of her home
It may be that war it may be sick with tyrants but I am branded by an impression of sunlight
Piece of her city will always be with her
But child vocabulary I carried here like a hollow doll opens and spills a grammar
No longer welcome
They accuse me of being dark in there free city
Form
No progression in the narrative to show that the narrator is stuck in the past
