Questions on the text passages by A Map of Home https://padlet.com/sarahnicolescu/fnqchgy3oqyd6jj8 en-us 2024-06-02 09:50:04 UTC 2024-06-04 13:33:09 UTC hello@padlet.com Text pages merlealexander https://padlet.com/sarahnicolescu/fnqchgy3oqyd6jj8/wish/3016595329 p.233,p.235

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p. 63, p. 67, p. 70, p. 98, p.232, p.235, p.288-289

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  • stuck between wanting to socialize and obeying her father

  • adapts quicker than her parents

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  • adaptation of superficial cultural markers (consumerism)

  • use of vulgar vernacular (p. 288)

  • styling high-school experience after movie archetypes

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  • she looks for things that are familiar

  • she tries to fit in/ try out new things

  • experiences/ tries to experience typical teenage life

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  • heavy-handed teaching of history by father

  • family history of being on the move as constitutive of identity as "half"

  • father sees self as steward of culture and impresses this on Nidali

  • oral tradition of resilience from grandmother

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  • Baba's impact: he implies that Nidali is not traditional enough but he was also a writer, he promotes education as a crucial good

  • she does not want to fall in love in order to avoid having a relationship like her parents

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  • father tries to push her to follow his own path

    -> pushing her into the direction he wants her to go

    -> teaches her ancestral history

  • mother helps her build her identity and understand culture

    -> represents not having a permanent home and identity

  • ancestors: cultural mix-up

  • cultural/(identity) clash imbued by outsiders

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  • humor is used to break up tense situations

  • coping mechanism

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  • irony as a coping strategy

  • vulgar humour (fart, f-word) --> works against what her father attributes to women

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  • humor as defiance (Muhammed Ali)

    • ridiculing israeli border check

  • humanizing power of humor, breaking of tension

    • creation of bonds

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  • Alexandria as "puberty city"

    • first sexual and romantic experiences

    • girl's school as site of humiliation

  • Boston as place of birth

  • Alexandria as "vacation city"

  • Kuwait as "first home"

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  • home as defined by family and practices as opposed to place

    • cuisine

    • burial

    • language

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  • reflecting Iraqi invasion of Kuwait

  • palestine and israeli conflict

  • being a displaced person/ how to belong

  • cultural conflict

  • culture diversity

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  • her roots aren't solid

  • her memories = safe space

  • she knows that real places & people will probably never be forever

  • memories help her to keep writing (& drawing) alive --> preserve memories

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