Nostalgia for Home Country: SI

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Nya Mills

Cards (8)

  • “England for the English” = English opinions on the purity of England; against migration
  • “Colonial Gaze” - Said
  • AO3 = Literary Context = Eveline by James Joyce
    • "Damned Italians! Coming over here!”
    • Show host country's hostility towards migration (similar to Bernard/Mr Todd)
  • AO3 = British Nationality Act (1948)
    • Gave Commonwealth citizens British citizenship
  • AO3 = Rivers of Blood Speech (1968)
    • Enoch Powell
    • Criticised mass migration
    • Similar to Bernard & Mr Todd
  • 'our own kind will stick together.' = hostile English and isolation from the migrants
  • 'i'into the sweet Jamaican night air... London with the rain striking me cold as steel pins.' = Gilbert longing for the atmosphere in JAM
  • 'even the sunshine can find no colour but grey.' = lack of happiness and sun in ENG