“This place is now your home” – A Comparative View on Partition Migrants in a New City. Kamila Shamsie’s Kartography and Inga Iwasiów’s Bambino
Journal: Jagiellonian University Repository (Jagiellonian University)
Year: 2014

Space and place are concepts that are usually taken for granted, Yi-Fu Tuan (1977:3) contends. The notion of place can be understood in many ways &ndash; a home, a neighbourhood, a town, or a country. However, what differentiates it from the more abstract notion of space is the meaning, or meanings, ascribed to it. Place is a space that one gets attached to, that gives one a feeling of a connectedness, a belongingness. What happens, though, when one loses that most intimate of places, one which