Nation

Question 1

2016, Monica Heller, ‘Sustaining the Nation’, book

Answer 1

“These debates reveal the kinds of ideologies… upon which modern nationalism is built, specifically, that groups of people are located within firm national boundaries and have clear connections to shared cultural and linguistic practices.”

Question 2

Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe, 1958

Answer 2

“Unoka was an ill-fated man. He had a bad chi or personal god, and evil fortune followed him to the grave” (Achebe 2010)

Question 3

‘Chinua Achebe and the Politics of Narration’, Thomas Jay Lynn, 2017

Answer 3

“Achebe deploys Nigerian Pidgin, as he does other African linguistic elements… to express the drive for cultural liberation by validating African realities.” (Lynn 2017)

Question 4

Cheviot, John McGrath, 1974

Answer 4

After song about industry by Loch and Sellar: “[At the end of the song they go off. The Gaelic singer stands up and says]: Mo Dhachaidh. (My home.)”
(McGrath 2015)

Question 5

TFA 2

Answer 5

“It is an abomination for a man to take his own life. It is an offence against the Earth, and a man who commits it will not be buried by his clansmen” (Achebe 2010)

Question 6

Cheviot 2

Answer 6

Crofter: “One thing’s certain. We can’t live here.”