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Homelands: Women's Journeys Across Race, Place, and Time.(Brief article)(Book review)
HOMELANDS: WOMEN'S JOURNEYS ACROSS RACE, PLACE, AND TIME
Edited by Patricia Justine Tumang and Jenesha de Rivera
Seal Press, 320 pages
THE 28 ESSAYS in Homelands explore personal relationships to the notion of home. Some authors push at cultural borders as they search for home: a young Sikh woman cuts her hair; a Dominican woman challenges her family's internalized racism. Some essays describe encounters with militarized zones: Chile under Pinochet, occupied Palestine, a Nazi-enforced ghetto. Histories rear up in women's everyday lives. Other women reflect on more intimate searches for home, such as coming out as lesbian or embracing stability after childhood homelessness.
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These essays feel urgent, as if the possibilities of home were being woven in the ...
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