Family Motel Presentation
Transcript: Discussion Questions "Studying these writers unsettles the binary between home and diaspora, opening up both terms for redefinition. One understanding of the term diaspora implies a collective cultural identification in which Africa represents a putative original home or pure origin" (Walters, 276) Family Relationships Leaving Others Back Home Comparing Different Experiences within the African Diaspora Amsterdam Generational Transgressions Within the Diaspora *How do you think one's idea of the home left behind affect's his or her perception? *How does one's relationship with his or her family back home affect his or her identity within the African diaspora?*Does the writer's perspective have an effect on the way in which the African diaspora is conceived? If so, please explain how. *How, if at all, do Brand and Klodawsky critique the idea of the homeland, construct a new homeland or envision a new community in their work? How do you think the two compare? *What are the claims about diaspora that are being made, unmade, contested, or reinforced in the novel/film and the stories of its characters? *How do Brand and Klodawsky unsettle the binary between home and diaspora opening up both terms for redefention? "I wanted to think of you quarreling with some small child for misplacing my letter, as if it were necessary for you to have it and to have some sign of me that was close. Some small child whose only sense of me would be my letters, their smell of glue and their words that would describe where she might want to be. This small child bathed in a fine story about me which you would tell her, holding the letter as if it were precious and a lesson, a sign of how life would pay if she only lived right. Some small child going back to her play after a while, called by the next candy or game and dropping the letter on the floor in her hurry where some breeze would take it to a corner under the bed or next to the wardrobe behind the clothes basket...I would like to be forgotten by such a child carrying on with her own play, and never dreaming that she would ever have to leave you" (Brand, 229-230). "I collect maps of all kinds, old ones and newer ones, ordnance maps and road maps. That was how I found my way out of America after leaving Carlyle and Gita on the road in Florida.In the trunk of the car I had brought all my maps and when I was so tired that I did not know my way, I would pull off to the side of the road and search my maps. Any one wold do, even a map of France or a map of Guyana. Their steadiness steadied me, it did not matter that they were not where I was. Their definite lines brought order to my head" (Brand, 231)
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