Question
Explore the significance of Tollington as a setting in Anita and Me.
(20 marks + 4 marks for SPaG)
Mark scheme (Level 5):
- AO1: Tollington as palimpsest — pastoral idyll, post-industrial decline, racialised space.
- AO2: The motorway as symbol of modernity displacing community; the village fete as ironic locus of racism; Nanima's bench as a redrawn 'home' space.
- AO3: De-industrialisation of the Black Country; the 1970s 'end of empire' national mood.
- AO4: SPaG.
- Critical: pastoral mode subverted; Raymond Williams's 'structure of feeling' applicable.
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