The Courter

The Courter

Time 1960s

Elements of 60s culture:

Comics

Cold War

Enoch Powell

Music: Ray Charles

No lullabies, Elvis, Neil Sedaka, Pat Boone

Dark glasses

Beatles „Love Me Do“.

Spurs: Tottenham Hotspurs. It is now an all-seater football stadium in Tottenham, London, England. Built in 1899, it is the home of Tottenham Hotspurs.

Whoite: cockney

Fred & Wilma Flintstone

Betty & Barney Rubble

Douglas Home /hju:m/

Language

	Certainly-Mary	Mixed-Up	Narrator	Family	Prince P	Maharajah of B
Mother tongue
L2
Aphasia/silence
Pronounciation
Vocabulary
Syntax
Chess (another language)

Instances of metalanguage (define)

Political (in)correctness/name giving/calling

Metanarrative (define p. 178)

Indian English

When mispronunciation or misuse cause offence

Game (see Acknowledgements p. 216—fake references, cf. Borges). Mecir did not exist

Nationality

India: far-away paradise (“Imaginary Homelands,” Imagined Communities, long-distance nationalism, exile)

Pakistan:

Places of origin: ayah, porter, family

Displacement to London: borrowed tongue

Iron Curtain—Cold War

Social class

Family (abba—title of honour)

Ayah

Porter

Maharajah: a Hindu prince

Field Marshal Sir Charles Lutwidge-Dogson (double barreled name): old India hand

Bayswater is an area of west London in the City of Westminsterand the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to the west . It is a built-up district located 3 miles (4.8 km) west-north-west of Charing Cross, bordering the north of Hyde Park over Kensington Gardens and having a population density of 17,500 per square kilometre.

Bayswater is one of London's most cosmopolitan areas wherein a diverse local population is augmented by a high concentration of hotels. In addition to the ancestral Britons, there is a significant Arab population towards Edgware Road, a large Greek community attracted by London's Greek Orthodox Cathedral, many Americans and London's main Brazilian community.

The area has attractive streets and garden squares lined with Victorian stucco terraces, mostly now subdivided into flats and boarding houses. The property ranges from very expensive apartments to small studio flats. There are also purpose-built apartment blocks dating from the inter-war period as well as more recent developments, and a large council estate.

Queensway is a bustling cosmopolitan street in the Bayswater district of west London. It contains many restaurants (particularly Chinese, Arab and Mediterranean ones), pubs, letting agents, and high street stores.

Porchester Baths: Turkish Baths, now spa

Kensington Court Place, Kensington W8. Kensington Court Place is a street that was originally known as Charles Street and renamed in 1908.

Mansion: manor house (2): a large imposing residence; b: a separate apartment or lodging in a large structure