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MUCH of American literature explores the immigrant experience. This should not surprise us, as America is a country of people who came by the boatload to make new lives for themselves. Thus, waves of Irish, Italian, Jewish, German, Russian and English migrants sailed to the New World in their hundreds of thousands. Thousands of Africans were transported to America as slaves. In turn, they all recorded their different experiences and impressions in books, poems and plays.
In time, they became absorbed into the mainstream, and their ethnic and national identities were subsumed in the melting pot that is America. They became Americans first, and their earlier nationalities and ethnic identities became secondary. But in terms of literary traditions and narratives, their experiences, traditions and cultures were accessible and familiar to all Americans.
However, Muslim migrants were relatively late arrivals on the scene. As such, their narratives have still not been internalised into the American zeitgeist. And before they had a chance to become familiar figures, their customs familiar to their neighbours, they hit a roadblock: 9/11. Suddenly, from being just another religious minority among many, they became members of a sinister fifth column in the popular view.
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The News Quiz 2008
- Series 64, 65 and 66 of the Topical BBC Radio 4 Comedy Panel Show
- Written by: BBC Radio Comedy
- Narrated by: Sandi Toksvig, Various
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
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Hosted by the peerless Sandi Toksvig, these 25 episodes take us through the highlights and lowlights of 2008, a year dominated by the global financial crisis and the US presidential race between Barack Obama and John McCain. Scrutinising stories both world-shaking and whimsical are an esteemed panel of comedians, journalists and commentators, among them Andy Hamilton, Jeremy Hardy, Phill Jupitus, Francis Wheen, Kevin Day, Carrie Quinlan, Mark Steel, Hugo Rifkind, Justin Edwards, Sue Perkins and Robin Ince.