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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"longing for home"”.
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This man country
… negotiate issues of race, gender, sexuality, and longing for home. Set in New York, the Caribbean, and South Africa, they reflect the history and culture of Caribbean immigrants and their children. These stories are meant to entertain and shed light on routinely unexplored areas of human …
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“Women of Allah” and “The Book of Kings:” Shirin Neshat’s Narratives of Returning Home
… past, present, and future. She constructs her longing for home in “Women of Allah'' and she visualizes her homecoming in “The Book of Kings.” The central point to this research is Neshat’s personal relationship to an event that caused her a traumatic experience, the experience that interrupted …
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Writing Home
… explores the author's relationship with the many homes she has had. The works are autobiographical, and they begin during the author's childhood as an Air Force Brat. After exploring a series of homes across the United States, including Honolulu, the work focuses on the author's transition from …
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Turning.
… and how it relates to a sense of place and belonging. Apart from the opening poem, the poems are arranged chronologically, and begin with two glimpses of nineteenth century ancestors, one imaginary, the other historical. In the twentieth century poems, the immediate members of my family are …
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Everything Broken is Waiting to Be Fixed
… readers realize Appalachia isn't just a haven for backwardness and ignorance. The use of magical realism allows readers to experience the pull of the region, and the absence of magic should allow readers to experience the protagonist's longing for home. </p> <p>As a novel in stories, …