Women are homemakers, their bodies are their homes.
For Suleri, therefore, the mother country moves with the mother as a transient place in which the woman is always at home. Dreaming of her mother under her tongue, Suleri has taken a most influential maternal detail and savored its endearment. As a Welsh woman, Suleri's mother feeds her the language of her mother and her mother's mother. Suleri's history of motherhood brings with it the mother English tongue with which she reads her mother's favorite novels and eventually writes her very own. The act of reclaiming requires renaming someone's mother country and calling it someone else's colony, a subset of a larger more masculine Imperial empire.