A map is only one story : twenty writers on immigration family and the meaning of home
A map is only one story : twenty writers on immigration family and the meaning of home
- xv, 234 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Introduction / Why we cross the border in El Paso / A map of lost things / My Indian passport is a bitch / This hell is not mine / Arab past, American present / How to write about your ancestral village / Carefree white girls, careful brown girls / Return to partition / Undocumented lovers in America / Say it with noodles / My grandmother's patois and other keys to survival / The dress / What Miyazaki's heroines taught me / How to stop saying sorry when things aren't your fault / The wailing / Writing letters to Mao / Dead-guy shirts and motel kids / Mourning my birthplace / Should I apply for citizenship? / How to write Iranian America; or, the last essay / Nicole Chung and Mensah Demary -- Victoria Blanco -- Jamila Osman -- Deepti Kapoor -- Kenechi Uzor -- Lauren Alwan -- Steph Wong Ken -- Cinelle Barnes -- Nur Nasreen Ibrahim -- Krystal A. Sital -- Shing Yin Khor -- Sharine Taylor -- Soraya Membreno -- Nina Li Coomes -- Kamna Muddagouni -- Nadia Owusu -- Jennifer S. Cheng -- Niina Pollari -- Natalia Sylvester -- Bix Gabriel -- Porochista Khakpour.
From rediscovering an ancestral village in China to experiencing the realities of American life as a Nigerian, the search for belonging crosses borders and generations. Selected from the archives of Catapult magazine, these essays highlight the human side of immigration policies and polarized rhetoric, as twenty writers share provocative personal stories of existing between languages and cultures.
9781948226783 1948226782
2019944449
Emigration and immigration.
Immigrants--Family relationships.
Home.
Transnationalism.
Essays.
Autobiographies.
JV6225 / .M36 2020
304.8
Introduction / Why we cross the border in El Paso / A map of lost things / My Indian passport is a bitch / This hell is not mine / Arab past, American present / How to write about your ancestral village / Carefree white girls, careful brown girls / Return to partition / Undocumented lovers in America / Say it with noodles / My grandmother's patois and other keys to survival / The dress / What Miyazaki's heroines taught me / How to stop saying sorry when things aren't your fault / The wailing / Writing letters to Mao / Dead-guy shirts and motel kids / Mourning my birthplace / Should I apply for citizenship? / How to write Iranian America; or, the last essay / Nicole Chung and Mensah Demary -- Victoria Blanco -- Jamila Osman -- Deepti Kapoor -- Kenechi Uzor -- Lauren Alwan -- Steph Wong Ken -- Cinelle Barnes -- Nur Nasreen Ibrahim -- Krystal A. Sital -- Shing Yin Khor -- Sharine Taylor -- Soraya Membreno -- Nina Li Coomes -- Kamna Muddagouni -- Nadia Owusu -- Jennifer S. Cheng -- Niina Pollari -- Natalia Sylvester -- Bix Gabriel -- Porochista Khakpour.
From rediscovering an ancestral village in China to experiencing the realities of American life as a Nigerian, the search for belonging crosses borders and generations. Selected from the archives of Catapult magazine, these essays highlight the human side of immigration policies and polarized rhetoric, as twenty writers share provocative personal stories of existing between languages and cultures.
9781948226783 1948226782
2019944449
Emigration and immigration.
Immigrants--Family relationships.
Home.
Transnationalism.
Essays.
Autobiographies.
JV6225 / .M36 2020
304.8