In a Warsan Shire poem set at a center for this process, the speaker calls themselves “bloated with language I can’t afford to forget” and has a mouth that “becomes a sink full of blood.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this process. While living in England, Obinze is forced to undergo this process on the day of his wedding to Cleotilde in Chimamanda Adichie’s novel Americanah.
ANSWER: deportation [accept word forms such as being deported; accept deportation to Nigeria, but not to other countries; prompt on expulsion] (The Shire poem is “Conversations About Home (at the Deportation Centre).”)
[10m] The speaker wonders how to tell her daughter they’re being deported in “Whilst Leila Sleeps,” a poem by a poet from this country. That poet, Jackie Kay, dated a poet from this country who wrote Standing Female Nude and The World’s Wife.
ANSWER: Scotland [accept Alba; prompt on United Kingdom; reject “England” or “Great Britain”] (The poet is Carol Ann Duffy.)
[10e] A Patience Agbabi poem reimagines this character as a Nigerian immigrant named “Mrs Alice Ebi Bafa.” A Zadie Smith play set in 18th-century Jamaica retells this Chaucer character’s tale about what women desire most.
ANSWER: the Wife of Bath [prompt on “The Wife of Bafa” or The Wife of Willesden]
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