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  • Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to East or East to West or from island to island. Even when you arrive, you're still going back and forth; your children are going round and round. There's no proper term for it - original sin seems too harsh; maybe original trauma would be better.

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    Children   Moving   Islands  
    Zadie Smith (2000). “White teeth”

  • A trauma is something one repeats and repeats, after all, and this is the tragedy of the Iqbals--that they can't help but reenact the dash they once made from one land to another, from one faith to another, from one brown mother country into the pale, freckled arms of an imperial sovereign.

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    Mother   Country   Land  
    Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.136, Vintage
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Zadie Smith

  • Born: October 25, 1975
  • Occupation: Novelist
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