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Dreaming of Elsewhere
Esi Edugyan
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Description for Dreaming of Elsewhere
Paperback. Esi Edugyan interlaces fact and fiction, storytelling and dreaming to capture the essence of belonging. Series: Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series. Num Pages: 56 pages. BIC Classification: WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 136 x 5. Weight in Grams: 100.
Home, for me, was not a birthright, but an invention. It seems to me when we speak of home we are speaking of several things, often at once, muddled together into an uneasy stew. We say home and mean origins, we say home and mean belonging. These are two different things: where we come from, and where we are. Writing about belonging is not a simple task. Esi Edugyan chooses to intertwine fact and fiction, objective and subjective in an effort to find out if one can belong to more than one place, if home is just a place or ... Read more
Home, for me, was not a birthright, but an invention. It seems to me when we speak of home we are speaking of several things, often at once, muddled together into an uneasy stew. We say home and mean origins, we say home and mean belonging. These are two different things: where we come from, and where we are. Writing about belonging is not a simple task. Esi Edugyan chooses to intertwine fact and fiction, objective and subjective in an effort to find out if one can belong to more than one place, if home is just a place or ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Number of pages
68
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
56
Place of Publication
, Canada
ISBN
9780888648211
SKU
V9780888648211
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About Esi Edugyan
Esi Edugyan's novel, Half-Blood Blues, won the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize for Fiction. It was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and was longlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction. Edugyan has held fellowships in the US, Scotland, Iceland, Germany, Hungary, Finland, Spain, and Belgium. ... Read more
Reviews for Dreaming of Elsewhere
# 6 on the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list (Edmonton Nonfiction) for the week of April 25, 2014 "Newcomers now are educated, eloquent and outspoken. Much will change, and some things will not change at all... Edugyan is one of the accomplished voices of the New Immigrant Experience... In Dreaming of Elsewhere she recounts the familiar story of conflict and disconnection ... Read more