Mcleod on the adoption of baby michael
The conclusion to the novel is both extremely moving and
remarkably bleak
Hortense after she was rejected
Hortense reeling wounded after a sharp slap from the mother country’s hand”
Hortense crying
“crying steady as a rain pipe”
Parallel’s of Gilberts response to Bernard in lonely londoners and Sam selvon’s lonely londoners
“What it is we want that the white people and them find it so hard to give?”
Gilbert’s response to Bernard’s lecture
No better no worse than me - just white
am i to be the servant and you the master for all this time”
Mcleod on the reality on Baby michael’s birth
You stay in the world you belong to
Hortense’s appreciation of Gilbert
“My husband was a man of class, a man of character …”
2001
Bush signs legislation ‘Transportation Security Administration (TSA)’ - critics say that this led to ethnic and religious profiling.
What does Greta olsen say about CHangez post 9/11
“He now clearly identifies with his native country Pakistan.”
Hamid on Islam
“Islam is not a monolith”
In terms of Erica’s death
“I had begun to understand that she had chosen not to be part of my story”
Changez after 9/11
More than once i was subjected to verbal abuse from strangers”
Everett Lee
Immigration involves push and pull factors - like a maths equation
Bouguereau
motherland painting
Bonnie Greer on how Levy’s experience has influenced her work
“she works through this dual reality..being both the child and the orphan of Empire.”
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Milton and webster8
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Hamlet critics17
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identity roots and origins9
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fascination of the new world17
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The desire to belong and the importance of community15
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hostility7
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isolation and rejection7
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small island context + critics9
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unseen6
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negative experiences COPY15
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Hamlet - acting and performance13
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Hamlet part A3
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Unseen terminology31
