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Migrations

Charlotte McConaghy

Author : Charlotte McConaghy
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250204011

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* INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Amazon Editors' Pick for Best Book of the Year in Fiction "Visceral and haunting" (New York Times Book Review) · "Hopeful" (Washington Post) · "Powerful" (Los Angeles Times) · "Thrilling" (TIME) · "Tantalizingly beautiful" (Elle) · "Suspenseful, atmospheric" (Vogue) · "Aching and poignant" (Guardian) · "Gripping" (The Economist) Franny Stone has always been the kind of woman who is able to love but unable to stay. Leaving behind everything but her research gear, she arrives in Greenland with a singular purpose: to follow the last Arctic terns in the world on what might be their final migration to Antarctica. Franny talks her way onto a fishing boat, and she and the crew set sail, traveling ever further from shore and safety. But as Franny’s history begins to unspool—a passionate love affair, an absent family, a devastating crime—it becomes clear that she is chasing more than just the birds. When Franny's dark secrets catch up with her, how much is she willing to risk for one more chance at redemption? Epic and intimate, heartbreaking and galvanizing, Charlotte McConaghy's Migrations is an ode to a disappearing world and a breathtaking page-turner about the possibility of hope against all odds.

Domestic Intersections in Contemporary Migration Fiction

Lucinda Newns

Author : Lucinda Newns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351390491

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Domestic Intersections in Contemporary Migration Fiction by Lucinda Newns Pdf

Homing the Metropole presents a new approach to diasporic fiction that reorients postcolonial readings of migration away from processes of displacement and rupture towards those of placement and homemaking. While notions of home have frequently been associated with essentialist understandings of nation and race, an uncritical investment in tropes of homelessness can prove equally hegemonic. By synthesising postcolonial and intersectional feminist theory, this work establishes the migrant domestic space as a central location of resistance, countering notions of the private sphere as static, uncreative and apolitical. Through close readings of fiction emerging from the African, Caribbean and South Asian diasporas, it reassesses our conception of home in light of contemporary realities of globalisation and forced migration, providing a valuable critique of the celebration of unfixed subject positions that has been a central tenet of postcolonial studies.

Fictions of Migration

Lorena Cuya Gavilano

Author : Lorena Cuya Gavilano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0814214657

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Fictions of Migration by Lorena Cuya Gavilano Pdf

Analyzes the impact of political and economic trends on migration narratives and films in Peru and Bolivia in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

The Transnational in Literary Studies

Kai Wiegandt

Author : Kai Wiegandt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110688825

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The Transnational in Literary Studies by Kai Wiegandt Pdf

This volume clarifies the meanings and applications of the concept of the transnational and identifies areas in which the concept can be particularly useful. The division of the volume into three parts reflects areas which seem particularly amenable to analysis through a transnational lens. The chapters in Part 1 present case studies in which the concept replaces or complements traditionally dominant concepts in literary studies. These chapters demonstrate, for example, why some dramatic texts and performances can better be described as transnational than as postcolonial, and how the transnational underlies and complements concepts such as world literature. Part 2 assesses the advantages and limitations of writing literary history with a transnational focus. These chapters illustrate how such a perspective loosens the epistemic stranglehold of national historiographies, but they also argue that the transnational and national agendas of literary historiography are frequently entangled. The chapters in Part 3 identify transnational genres such as the transnational historical novel, transnational migrant fiction and translinguistic theatre, and analyse the specific poetics and politics of these genres.

Francophone Sephardic Fiction

Judith Roumani

Author : Judith Roumani
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781793620101

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Francophone Sephardic Fiction by Judith Roumani Pdf

This book argues that modern francophone Sephardic novels, mainly from North Africa, draw on oral storytelling as well as modern and postmodern techniques to express the experience of migration, producing innovative imagined portable homelands with which the migrants successfully confront new societies, languages, and cultures.

American Dirt (Oprah's Book Club)

Jeanine Cummins

Author : Jeanine Cummins
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250209788

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American Dirt (Oprah's Book Club) by Jeanine Cummins Pdf

"También de este lado hay sueños. On this side, too, there are dreams. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then one day a man enters the shop to browse and comes up to the register with four books he would like to buy--two of them her favorites. Javier is erudite. He is charming. And, unbeknownst to Lydia, he is the jefe of the newest drug cartel that has gruesomely taken over the city. When Lydia's husband's tell-all profile of Javier is published, none of their lives will ever be the same. Forced to flee, Lydia and eight-year-old Luca soon find themselves miles and worlds away from their comfortable middle-class existence. Instantly transformed into migrants, Lydia and Luca ride la bestia--trains that make their way north toward the United States, which is the only place Javier's reach doesn't extend. As they join the countless people trying to reach el norte, Lydia soon sees that everyone is running from something. But what exactly are they running to? American Dirt will leave readers utterly changed when they finish reading it. A page-turner filled with poignancy, drama, and humanity on every page, it is a literary achievement."--

Migrants

Issa Watanabe

Author : Issa Watanabe
Publisher : Gecko Press USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : 1776573137

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Migrants by Issa Watanabe Pdf

The migrants must leave the forest, but the journey proves to be a dangerous battle of love and loss.

Finding Home

Jen Sookfong Lee

Author : Jen Sookfong Lee
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781459819016

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Finding Home by Jen Sookfong Lee Pdf

What drives people to search for new homes? From war zones to politics, there are many reasons why people have always searched for a place to call home. In Finding Home: The Journey of Immigrants and Refugees we discover how human migration has shaped our world. We explore its origins and the current issues facing immigrants and refugees today, and we hear the first-hand stories of people who have moved across the globe looking for safety, security and happiness. Author Jen Sookfong Lee shares her personal experience of growing up as the child of immigrants and gives a human face to the realities of being an immigrant or refugee today.

The Annual Migration of Clouds

Premee Mohamed

Author : Premee Mohamed
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781773057088

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The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed Pdf

A novella set in post–climate disaster Alberta; a woman infected with a mysterious parasite must choose whether to pursue a rare opportunity far from home or stay and help rebuild her community The world is nothing like it once was: climate disasters have wracked the continent, causing food shortages, ending industry, and leaving little behind. Then came Cad, mysterious mind-altering fungi that invade the bodies of the now scattered citizenry. Reid, a young woman who carries this parasite, has been given a chance to get away — to move to one of the last remnants of pre-disaster society — but she can’t bring herself to abandon her mother and the community that relies on her. When she’s offered a coveted place on a dangerous and profitable mission, she jumps at the opportunity to set her family up for life, but how can Reid ask people to put their trust in her when she can’t even trust her own mind? With keen insight and biting prose, Premee Mohamed delivers a deeply personal tale in this post-apocalyptic hopepunk novella that reflects on the meaning of community and asks what we owe to those who have lifted us up.

My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You

Aleksandar Hemon

Author : Aleksandar Hemon
Publisher : MCD
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374716257

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My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You by Aleksandar Hemon Pdf

Two books in one in a flip dos-à-dos format: The story of Aleksandar Hemon’s parents’ immigration from Sarajevo to Canada and a book of short memories of the author’s family, friends, and childhood in Sarajevo In My Parents, Aleksandar Hemon tells the story of his parents’ immigration to Canada—of the lives that were upended by the war in Bosnia and siege of Sarajevo and the new lives his parents were forced to build. As ever with his work, he portrays both the perfect, intimate details (his mother’s lonely upbringing, his father’s fanatical beekeeping) and a sweeping, heartbreaking history of his native country. It is a story full of many Hemons, of course—his parents, sister, uncles, cousins—and also of German occupying forces, Yugoslav partisans, royalist Serb collaborators, singing Ukrainians, and a few befuddled Canadians. My Parents is Hemon at his very best, grounded in stories lovingly polished by retelling, but making them exhilarating and fresh in writing, summoning unexpected laughs in the midst of the heartbreaking narratives. This Does Not Belong to You, meanwhile, is the exhilarating, freewheeling, unabashedly personal companion to My Parents—a perfect dose of Hemon at his most dazzling and untempered in a series of beautifully distilled memories and observations and explosive, hilarious, poignant miniatures. Presented dos-à-dos with My Parents, it complements and completes a major work from a major writer. In the words of Colum McCann, “Aleksandar Hemon is, quite frankly, the greatest writer of our generation.” Hemon has never been better than here in these pages. And the moment has never been more ready for his voice, nor has the world ever been more in need of it.

The Warmth of Other Suns

Isabel Wilkerson

Author : Isabel Wilkerson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780679763888

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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize–winnner and bestselling author of Caste chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, where she achieved quiet blue-collar success and, in old age, voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights, saw his family fall, and finally found peace in God; and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career, the personal physician to Ray Charles as part of a glitteringly successful medical career, which allowed him to purchase a grand home where he often threw exuberant parties. Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous and exhausting cross-country trips by car and train and their new lives in colonies that grew into ghettos, as well as how they changed these cities with southern food, faith, and culture and improved them with discipline, drive, and hard work. Both a riveting microcosm and a major assessment, The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an “unrecognized immigration” within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is destined to become a classic.

The Migration

Helen Marshall

Author : Helen Marshall
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735272637

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Finalist for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic "A dark fable that somehow feels both timeless and urgently topical. The Migration is heart-wringing and powerful, but over and above that, it's just vivid and immersive and enthralling throughout." --M.R. Carey, author of The Girl with All the Gifts When I was younger I didn't know a thing about death. I thought it meant stillness, a body gone limp. A marionette with its strings cut. Death was like a long vacation--a going away. Not this. Storms and flooding are worsening around the world, and a mysterious immune disorder has begun to afflict the young. Sophie Perella is about to begin her senior year of high school in Toronto when her little sister, Kira, is diagnosed. Their parents' marriage falters under the strain, and Sophie's mother takes the girls to Oxford, England, to live with their Aunt Irene. An Oxford University professor and historical epidemiologist obsessed with relics of the Black Death, Irene works with a Centre that specializes in treating people with the illness. She is a friend to Sophie, and offers a window into a strange and ancient history of human plague and recovery. Sophie just wants to understand what's happening now; but as mortality rates climb, and reports emerge of bodily tremors in the deceased, it becomes clear there is nothing normal about this condition--and that the dead aren't staying dead. When Kira succumbs, Sophie faces an unimaginable choice: let go of the sister she knows, or take action to embrace something terrifying and new. Tender and chilling, unsettling and hopeful, The Migration is a story of a young woman's dawning awareness of mortality and the power of the human heart to thrive in cataclysmic circumstances.

A Lonely Place To Be

Virginia Egbujor

Author : Virginia Egbujor
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504943550

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The novel is set in contemporary Europe. It brings to focus the often complex and turbulent experience of people who leave home for other parts unfamiliar to them. A young Modern Languages graduate of his country’s University, left the true, steadfast and reassuring love of his dedicated family in the West Coast of Africa for faraway Europe. He left home in pursuit of the much- spoken- about ‘good life’ in the West of Europe. It in simple terms means; assured prosperity or freedom from poverty. This fantasy was rife and sustained in his community and other parts of the developing world, namely: most of the continent of Africa Asia and some parts of the Middle East. These are ravaged by acts of wars and; mismanagement by those in position of power and authority. His migration journey was relatively uneventful, but he heard true account of sordid stories of hardship, exploitation, abuse and widespread loss of lives on the wide open seas en- route to migration. Reality dawned on him, when he was greeted with instant dislike and rejection from his so-called hosts. He was alone and unwanted whatever he did. Shortly, he met some acquaintances who felt the same like him. Then he was sure he was not over- sensitive or over reacting to his new environment. He discovered that the much- sought- after prosperity would elude him no matter how much he persevered,{his high level of education failed to afford him a meaningful job} For the largest number of the ethnic population, he was ‘Persona non grata: ( an unwelcome or unwanted person). It was apparent that in England and the wider Europe, there was no ‘mythical dream’ like in the so-called ‘beloved New World’. Sometimes the hatred of the ‘migrants’ as they are pejoratively renamed, escalates to death or near death proportion precipitating a migrant hunt in immigration van. Sadly, almost everyone is in it (in varying degrees). Fellow workers at the menial job he did (the infamous 3D jobs) for lack of any thing better, do not hide their disaffection and rejection. His neighbour appeared not to stand the sight of him. Many in the neighbourhood are compulsively resistant to anyone from non- identical race or background. Fellow migrants avoid each other for self preservation. Many laboured to ingratiate themselves with the hosts at the expense of other migrants It was an open secret that the so-called ‘migrants’ are part of the political football, and the law- makers do not hesitate to focus on the dislike of the migrant to impress the voters. The migrant hunt was on-going in the white vans: (obviously threatening to catch and deport them) He felt trapped. Indeed it was hard to choose to leave or stay. He spared a short time to offer a simplistic advice to the youths at his home, and any would-be ‘migrant’ “Please do not leave home at all costs” (in spite of everything he stressed), Europe may not be worth it after all’, he concluded.

The Best of All Possible Worlds

Karen Lord

Author : Karen Lord
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345534064

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED • A stunning epic that is at once a new vision of science fiction and a deeply moving love story, from the award-winning author of Redemption in Indigo “An engrossing picaresque quest, a love story, and a moving character study . . . [Karen] Lord is on a par with Ursula K. Le Guin.”—The Guardian A proud and reserved alien society finds its homeland destroyed in an unprovoked act of aggression, leaving the survivors no choice but to reach out to the indigenous humanoids of their adopted world, to whom they are distantly related. They wish to preserve their cherished way of life but discover that to protect their culture, they may have to change it forever. Now a man and a woman from opposite sides of these clashing societies must work together to save this vanishing race—and end up uncovering ancient mysteries with far-reaching ramifications. As their mission hangs in the balance, these unlikely partners—one cool and cerebral, the other fiery and impulsive—may find in each other their own destinies . . . and a force that transcends all. Includes two bonus short stories “[A] fascinating and thoughtful science fiction novel that examines] adaptation, social change, and human relationships. I’ve not read anything quite like it, which makes it that rare beast: a true original.”—Kate Elliott, author of the Crown of Stars series and The Spiritwalker Trilogy “Reads like smooth jazz comfort food, deceptively familiar and easy going down, but subtly subversive.”—Nalo Hopkinson, Los Angeles Review of Books “If you want to see science fiction doing something new and fascinating . . . then you shouldn’t sleep on The Best of All Possible Worlds.”—io9 “Rewarding science fiction for emotional grown-ups.”—Mysterious Galaxy “[A] marvelously formed universe.”—The A.V. Club “A rewarding, touching and often funny exploration of the forms and functions of human culture.”—SFX “The Best of All Possible Worlds . . . poses an interesting question: What parts of you do you fight to preserve when everything you know suddenly changes?”—Associated Press

The Last Migration

Charlotte McConaghy

Author : Charlotte McConaghy
Publisher : Chatto & Windus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Secrecy
ISBN : 1784743186

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A dark past. An impossible journey. The will to survive. How far you would you go for love? Franny Stone is determined to go to the end of the earth, following the last of the Arctic terns on what may be their final migration to Antarctica. As animal populations plummet and commercial fishing faces prohibition, Franny talks her way onto one of the few remaining boats heading south. But as she and the eccentric crew travel further from shore and safety, the dark secrets of Franny's life begin to unspool. A daughter's yearning search for her mother. An impulsive, passionate marriage. A shocking crime. Haunted by love and violence, Franny must confront what she is really running towards - and from."--Publisher

Migration And Fiction

Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy Pdf

Domestic Intersections in Contemporary Migration Fiction by Lucinda Newns Pdf

Fictions of Migration by Lorena Cuya Gavilano Pdf

The Transnational in Literary Studies by Kai Wiegandt Pdf

Francophone Sephardic Fiction by Judith Roumani Pdf

American Dirt (Oprah's Book Club) by Jeanine Cummins Pdf

Migrants by Issa Watanabe Pdf

Finding Home by Jen Sookfong Lee Pdf

The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed Pdf

My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You by Aleksandar Hemon Pdf

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson Pdf

The Migration by Helen Marshall Pdf

A Lonely Place To Be by Virginia Egbujor Pdf

The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord Pdf

The Last Migration by Charlotte McConaghy Pdf

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