Homelands
Subtitle: women's journeys across race, place, and time
By: edited by Patricia Justine Tumang and Jenesha de Rivera ; foreword by Edwidge Danticat.
Contributors: Tumang, Patricia Justine.; Rivera, Jenesha de.
Publisher: Seal Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Emeryville, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9781580051880
Subjects: Women immigrants; Women refugees; Emigration and immigration -- Psychological aspects; Migration, Internal -- Psychological aspects; Identity (Psychology); Group identity; Home -- Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-331).
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Edwidge Danticat; title: Introduction; title: In search of the next harvest / Guillermina Gina Núñez; title: The reciters / Agate Nesaule; title: Journey by inner light / Meeta Kaur; title: Oburoni no more / Kim Foote; title: Venceremos! : words in red paint / Ananda Esteva; title: Filipino secrets and American dreams / Patricia Justine Tumang; title: Journeys to Jerusalem / Lisa Suhair Majaj; title: Different blood : a journey to Myanmar / Wendy Marie Thompson; title: Dakota homecoming / Diane Wilson; title: Homeward bound : the journey of a transgendered Korean adoptee / Pauline Park; title: Identifying with America / Erika Martínez; title: Seeing Istanos / Nancy Agabian; title: Waves : my Haitian American rhythm / Phoenix Soleil; title: Leaving Battambang, the city of answers / Sokunthary Svay; title: Heartbroken for Lebanon / Leila Abu-Saba; title: American Viking / Sarah McCormic; title: Never gone back / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha; title: What is home after exile? : an Iranian Greek American homecoming / Aphrodite Desiree Navab; title: Yiddishland / Ellen Cassedy; title: Queer heart in a red-state body / C.L. Carlton; title: Home, adopted / Jill Kim SooHoo; title: Urban nomads / Joshunda Sanders; title: The route back to Tonga / Loa Niumeitolu; title: Coming out, coming home / Jenesha de Rivera; title: Embrace of the motherland / Canyon Sam; title: Sowing for lineage / Claudia Virginia Narváez-Meza; title: Voyage, war, and exile / Etel Adnan; title: Off the edge of the world : an Ethiopian story in metaphors / Maaza Mengiste.