Literary context unseen Flashcards
remember all the quotes and names of books to compare in unseen
What is the “ City of Spades” by Colin MacInnes ( 1957) :
Johnny fortune just came from Nigeria to London and is experiencing the British capital.
What are the main Quotes from the City of Spades
“ well man i hustle” Johnny friend Hamilton shows how it is hard for a POC to get jobs in London
“ in our private tribal tongue” . -the collective pronoun our shows that he likes the fact that he has something to share his roots with.
“ I could see, I could hear , I could smell” - sensory overload and joy
“ the cosmopolitan dance hall” - diverse and culturally accepting
What is“ Americanah” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ( 2013) about
Ifemelu is a young Nigerian women who attends an american university.
What are the main Quotes of Americanah
“ she hoped her driver would not be nigerian” - embarrassment and forgetful of her own culture
“ was looking down on him” - she is insecure what her status and race mixing
“Words came out half completed “ - judgmental because she has proper English
“ It took many repetition Ifemlu to understand that they woman was saying, IM like , oh my god i was so mad”- she also hasn’t assimilated with black people in new York.
“ Brick Lane “ Monica Ali ( 2003)
Nazneen is a bangladeshi woemna who moves to london to marry an older man.
main quotes of brick lane
“ he said something in english but she could not understand him”
“ she was lost and cold, Nazneen began to feel a little pleased. She had spoken one word, english , to a strangrt and she had been understood. It was very little , but it was something”.
“ she looked both ways, space opened before her and ran”
“ a gang of pigeons like prisoners”
“ but they were not aware of her”
“ could not see her any more than she could see God”
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“ behold the dreamers” by Imbolo Mbue ( 2016 )
Jende going for a job interview in manhattan
Behold the dreamers main quotes
“ alone in the elevator to the 28th floor”
“ inspected fingrnsls “
“ no ripe planatians in his teeth”
“ his mouth fell open at the view outside - the likes of which he never seen - the exquitness inside”
“ Barack Obama and the dream of a colour - blind america… fascinated as he was by the young ambitious senator”
What is “ the buddha in the Attic” Julie Otsuka ( 2011)
This is a young girls from japan going to America to get married
What are the main Quotes from Buddha and the attic
“ at night we dreamed about our husband”
“ we was comparing photographs of our husband”
“ on the boat mostly virgins … were only fourteen”
“ hair and skin smooth and unbleshimed… their posture , good “
What is “Girl woman other “ by Bernadine Evaristo ( 2019 ) about and its main quotes
“ life was different before 9/11”
“ life was different before 9/11” where they looked at hijabbed women with suprise , curoisity or pity “
“ blatant hostility”
what is“ Lonely Londoners “ by Sam Selvon ( 1956) about
In this extract from tghe beginning of the novel , the protagonist Moses Aloetta leaves his flat in London to meet a man who has arrived from the Caribbean.
Main quotes from Lonely Londoners
“ stop them coming to the mother country “
“ english people believe that everybody from the west indies come from jamaica”
“ we cant get no place to live, answer only getting the worst jobs it have “
What is “Sour sweet” Timothy Mo ( 1982) about
Chen family who arrived in the uk from Hong Kong four years ago.
What are sour sweet key quotes
lost the in the society from which they had emigrated but long enough to feel comfortable”
“ the english people had competed for the flat which he now occupied made chen feel rather less of a foreigner “
“ husband dont you feel a little isolated here sometimes? Dont you feel hidden away from the rest of the world”
