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GCSE English Literature · key term
A woman who has left her native country to live elsewhere, often for political reasons.
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Paper 2
Revise: The ÉmigréeCarol Rumens’s The Émigrée, written in 1993, gives a voice to a woman who left her country as a child and cannot return. She receives disturbing news about it, but her remembered city remains beautiful and full of sunlight. In the final stanza, this cherished inner world encounters people who accuse and threaten her.
Paper 2
A woman who has left her country to settle elsewhere; the feminine form of a word borrowed from French.
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In The Émigrée, Carol Rumens creates a woman who left her country as a child. News suggests that her homeland has become dangerous, but her remembered city remains bright and precious. She cannot return physically, so she keeps it alive through memory, language and imagination.
