Anita and Me
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₢Anita and Me is Meera Syal's debut novel, and was first published in 1996. It is a semi-autobiographical novel which has won the Betty Trask Award.
The story revolves around Meena an Indian Punjabi girl with a funny hair-cut(the "me" of the title)and her relationship with the white Anita as they grow up in the fictional Midlands village of Tollington in the 1970s.
It was a GCSE English literature set text for the examination years 2004 and 2005.
[edit] Film
It was made into a film of the same name in 2002, in which Meera Syal appears as Meena's Auntie Shaila. Syal also wrote the screenplay for the film. The film starred Chandeep Uppal and Anna Brewster.
[edit] Secondary literature
- Rocío G. Davis, "India in Britain: Myths of Childhood in Meera Syal's Anita and Me", in Fernando Galván & Mercedes Bengoechea (ed.), On Writing (and) Race in Contemporary Britain, Universidad de Alcalá 1999, 139-46.
- Graeme Dunphy, "Meena's Mockingbird: From Harper Lee to Meera Syal", in Neophilologus 88, 2004, 637-59.
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