What is the time period in England the book is set in according to Dominguez?
100
It over simplifies by ignoring/erasing history.
What is one of the main problems with Cosmopolitanism that Rogers alludes to?
100
Interactions and relationships between people who came from different ethnicities but all lived in the same place
What according to Bently does Smith's novel explore?
100
"Normal" families/ people who are not them
What is Irie's rant about?
100
2000
What is the copy right of the book?
200
gender, genre, race, and nation
What are the reasons Dominguez is so involved with Smith's novel?
200
Denying neither the past nor the present, and acknowledging complexity.
According to Rogers, what does Zadie Smith see having the most potential for “understanding and healing” in a postcolonial setting?
200
"An inaccurate way of describing the ethnic diversity of multicultural England.
What does Bently believe "old categories of race" are?
200
Eight weeks
How many months pregnant is Irie?
200
448
How many pages is the novel?
300
Hiding or blending in, acting out.
What are the ways the children (second generation) appropriate the city their born in?
300
It is a location where “everything was remembered, nothing was lost.” In O’Connell’s, history is not ignored nor reinterpreted, but merely exists.
What does Rogers say about the role of O’Connell’s in regards to Smith and her reading of history?
300
The both "symbolize the escape from the ideological weight of colonial genealogy"
How do irie's unborn child and futuremouse parallel each other according to Bently?
300
Samad wrote it in blood and then carved it in the bench.
What it means to Samad: he's becoming more like the English and Americans
What it means to Millat: That Samad is nothing
What is the story behind "IQBAL" and what does it mean to Samad and Millat?
300
Jehovah's Witnesses
What is Hortense's religion?
400
O'Connell's and Glenard Oak Comprehensive School.
What are the places in the novel that "brings together a wide range of children from all races, ethnic groups, and religions"?
400
It offers a positive look at hybridity devoid of the glorification (naivety) that can be found in Cosmopolitanism.
What is the significance of the coconut scene between Samad and Poppy-Burt-Jones?
400
"a cultural identity"
What is the definition of Englishness?
400
The Final Space and Of Mice and Memory
What are the names of the last two chapters?
400
Mark Smith
What is the name Magid takes on to blend in?
500
Joyce Chalfen and Poppy Burt-Jones
Who are the white English women that "are smarter and more determined than Archie"?
500
No roots to worry about. No past.
Why is the lack of a father a good thing in Irie's mind?
500
"Archie's working-class Cockney accent to Clara's Creolized-Caribbrean ones and Samad's Asian-English" They represent multiple socioeconomic backgrounds brought to light by each character
What are the dialects used in throughout the book and what do they represent?
500
magid and Millat serve four hundred hours of community service; Irie and Joshua are lovers in the Caribbean.