the immigrant experience in literature - texts

Question 1

Americanah
chimamanda ngozi

Answer 1

explores complexities with identity, ifemelu

‘stop saying i’m jamaican or i’m ghanian. america doesn’t care’

’ i did not think of myself as lack, i only became black after i came to america-

‘i came from a country where race was not an issue’

Question 2

Girl Woman Other

Answer 2

‘there’s nothing like the confidence of a mediocre white man, used to being treated as if he’s exceptional’

societal expectations

Question 3

Exit West

Answer 3

‘when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind’

migration , seeking better life elsewhere

Question 4

Brick Lane

Answer 4

‘every morning i tell myself today has to be better but it isnt’
‘you had to seize opportunities you got’

assimiliation’ nazneen draped her saree over her head, urban life and social change quest for personal fufilment

Question 5

The Lonely Londoners

Answer 5

’ one grim winter evening’
‘london winter cold like hell’

caribbean immigrants in 1950s, islation, sam selvon, mosses aloetta

Question 6

Behold The Dreamers

Answer 6

jende
‘ wiping plantain of side of his mouths,

people at the top make problems for people at the bottom

Question 7

Brooklyn

Answer 7

toibin - ellis lacey with irish background

i knew i would miss the place where i had been born and bred

homesickness… wish to be elsewhere

Question 8

Call It Sleep

Answer 8

family dynamics

jewish immigrants in early new york city,

‘here the yiddish sentences grown ups spoke took on the shape on an alien song’
caputres experience of david schearl - tries to understand

Question 9

Home Fire