Told in these four voices, Small Island is a courageous novel of tender emotion and sparkling wit, of crossings taken and passages lost, of shattering compassion and of reckless optimism in the face of insurmountable barriers---in short, an encapsulation of the immigrant's life. 此资源代找服务...
This article examines Andrea Levy's 2004 novel Small Island as a postcolonial trauma novel that revisions cultural memory of World War II and its aftermath. Utilising the insights of Stef Craps's Postcolonial Witnessing, it explores the ways in which Levy's text redresses the marginalization of ...
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Writers Helen Edmundson (adaptation) | Andrea Levy (novel) Composer Benjamin Kwasi Burrell Casting Director Isabella Odoffin Production Designer Katrina Lindsay See all filmmakers & crew (90) Trending Become a member to see MOVIEmeter and news information about National Theatre Live: Small Island. ...
Gilbert and Hortense, Two of Andrea Levy's Small Island Protagonists Would Be Well into Their 70s by Now. after a Lifetime Here, How Would They Now Face the Challenge of Growing Old in a Country That First Shunned Their Arrival? Bafta-Winning Birmingham Author Mandy Richards Reports on the...
This chapter explores the role of metaphor in Andrea Levy's Small Island (2004) and particularly the way it transcribes the diasporic subject's emergence from the metaphorical shackles of imperialist discourse and entrance into the official history of postcolonial Britain. Metaphor has traditionally ...
Spectacles and perfect grins are what lure immigrants to Great Britain in 1948, according to a character in Andrea Levy's Small Island. "That National Health Service - it's pulling them in," he complains. With all the free dental work and ophthalmic attention on offer, it's no wonder ...
Small IslandThis article argues that Andrea Levy's 2004 novel, Small Island, and its interrogation of the politics of British multiculturalism imagines a model of multicultural encounter that prioritizes the emplaced and embodied experience. Playing off of David Cameron's call for a "muscular ...
Informed by Stuart Hall's critical insight into identity and Ashley Dawson's theories of the "mongrel nation", this paper analyzes Andrea Levy's novel Small Island (2004) and the complex aspects of construction of identity and the related politics of identity. This novel by the black British-...