Flashcards on Contemporary British Literature and Drama
Contemporary British Literature and Drama: Student Guide
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Card 1
Question: Who is the anonymous narrator in Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body (1992)?
Answer: An unnamed narrator of indeterminate gender, mourning the loss of their love, Louise Julian.
Card 2
Question: What main motifs/parodies are featured in Jeanette Winterson's England, England (1998) by Julian Barnes?
Answer: Sir Jack Pitman, the Isle of Wight, 'The Fifty Quintessences of Englishness,' and the 'England, England' theme park project.
Card 3
Question: Who is the main character and when does Ian McEwan's Saturday (2005) take place?
Answer: Main character: Henry Perowne; the story takes place on Saturday, February 15, 2003, featuring the character Baxter.
Card 4
Question: How can the concept of 'multicultural literature in contemporary Britain' be briefly defined according to the content?
Answer: A broader category than postcolonial literature, encompassing postcolonial authors, diasporic literature, authors with different (or non-(post)colonia
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Question: Name two significant authors of multicultural British literature and their works mentioned in the content.
Answer: Hanif Kureishi – screenplay My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), novel Intimacy (1998); Vikram Seth – A Suitable Boy (1993), An Equal Music (1999).
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Question: What is one of Zadie Smith's main themes, according to the content?
Answer: The need for a redefinition of the concept of Englishness.
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Question: Name two works by Timothy Mo mentioned in the content and the main setting of one of them.
Answer: Sour Sweet (1982) – 1960s London, the Chen family in London's Chinatown; The Redundancy of Courage (1991).
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Question: What are the key novels by Andrea Levy and Monica Ali mentioned in the content?
Answer: Andrea Levy – Small Island (2004); Monica Ali – Brick Lane (2003) (main character Nazneen Chanu).
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Question: What characters and families are mentioned in Zadie Smith's White Teeth (2000)?
Answer: Characters: Samad Iqbal, Alsana Magid, and Millat; Archie Jones, Clara Irie; the Chalfen family (Jewish-Catholic, educated intellectuals from Cambridg
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Question: Who was Jean Rhys and for which work is she best known, according to the content?
Answer: A Dominican writer (1890–1979), best known for the novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) – featuring Antoinette Cosway (Bertha Mason from Jane Eyre).