BOOK REPORT Title & author of the book: 'Anita and Me' by Meera Syal The setting of the book? The story resolves around Meena Syal, the daughter of the only Punjabi family in the Midlands' mining village of Tollington. The novel provides a vision of British childhood in the 1960s, a childhood caught between two cultures, each on the brink of enormous change. Meena is desperate to fit in with the other children in her neighbourhood while forever feeling like an outsider because she is "different". Eventhough the Punjabi family is well respected by the locals, there are still sutations when they have to deal with racism.
For him, to write “conventionally” means to be a rebel. He is anti-‐postmodern and anti-‐ theory. More recent works Solar (2010), Sweet Tooth (2012) and The Children Act (2014). Solar – ecocritical novel. Female authors of the millennium. Jeanette Winterson, Meera Syal, Zadie Smith. Historical fiction dominated in the women’s writing of the pre-‐millennium. Escapist in nature and does not romanticise the past. Constructed fictional illusion then uncover that illusion, i.e
«ɭɫɪɟɞɧɟɧɢɹ». Ɍɚɥɥɢɧɧ: ɂɡɞ-ɜɨ Ɍɉɍ, 2006. 146 ɫɬɪ. Ɍɚɥɥɢɧɧɫɤɢɣ ɩɟɞɚɝɨɝɢɱɟɫɤɢɣ ɭɧɢɜɟɪɫɢɬɟɬ. Ⱦɢɫɫɟɪɬɚɰɢɢ ɩɨ ɝɭɦɚɧɢɬɚɪɧɵɦ ɧɚɭɤɚɦ, 17. ISSN 1736–3624. ISBN-10 9985-58-435-X. ISBN-13 987-9985-58-435-4. 18. JULIA TOFANTŠUK. Construction of Identity In The Fiction of Contemporary British Women Writers (Jeanette Winterson, Meera Syal, and Eva Figes). Tallinn: Tallinn University Press, 2001. 160 p. Tallinn University. Dissertations on Humanities Sciences, 18. ISSN 1736-3624. ISBN 978-9985-58-479-8. 206 19. REILI ARGUS. Eesti keele muutemorfoloogia omandamine. Tallinn: TLÜ kirjastus, 2007. 242 lk. Tallinna Ülikool. Humanitaarteaduste dissertatsioonid, 19. ISSN 1736-3624. ISBN 978-9985-58-543-6. 20. ÕNNE KEPP. Identiteedi suundumusi Eesti luules
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