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A map is only one story : twenty writers on immigration, family, and the meaning of home / edited by Nicole Chung and Mensah Demary.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Catapult, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: xv, 234 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781948226783
  • 1948226782
Other title:
  • Twenty writers on immigration, family, and the meaning of home
  • 20 writers on immigration, family, and the meaning of home
Uniform titles:
  • Catapult magazine
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Contents:
Introduction / Nicole Chung and Mensah Demary -- Why we cross the border in El Paso / Victoria Blanco -- A map of lost things / Jamila Osman -- My Indian passport is a bitch / Deepti Kapoor -- This hell is not mine / Kenechi Uzor -- Arab past, American present / Lauren Alwan -- How to write about your ancestral village / Steph Wong Ken -- Carefree white girls, careful brown girls / Cinelle Barnes -- Return to partition / Nur Nasreen Ibrahim -- Undocumented lovers in America / Krystal A. Sital -- Say it with noodles / Shing Yin Khor -- My grandmother's patois and other keys to survival / Sharine Taylor -- The dress / Soraya Membreno -- What Miyazaki's heroines taught me / Nina Li Coomes -- How to stop saying sorry when things aren't your fault / Kamna Muddagouni -- The wailing / Nadia Owusu -- Writing letters to Mao / Jennifer S. Cheng -- Dead-guy shirts and motel kids / Niina Pollari -- Mourning my birthplace / Natalia Sylvester -- Should I apply for citizenship? / Bix Gabriel -- How to write Iranian America; or, the last essay / Porochista Khakpour.
Summary: From rediscovering an ancestral village in China to experiencing the realities of American life as a Nigerian, the search for belonging crosses borders and generations. Selected from the archives of Catapult magazine, these essays highlight the human side of immigration policies and polarized rhetoric, as twenty writers share provocative personal stories of existing between languages and cultures.
List(s) this item appears in: Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
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From rediscovering an ancestral village in China to experiencing the realities of American life as a Nigerian, the search for belonging crosses borders and generations.

Selected from the archives of Catapult magazine, the essays in A Map Is Only One Story highlight the human side of immigration policies and polarized rhetoric, as twenty writers share provocative personal stories of existing between languages and cultures.

Victoria Blanco relates how those with family in both El Paso and Ciudad Juarez experience life on the border. Nina Li Coomes recalls the heroines of Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki and what they taught her about her bicultural identity. Nur Nasreen Ibrahim details her grandfather's crossing of the India-Pakistan border sixty years after Partition. Krystal A. Sital writes of how undocumented status in the United States can impact love and relationships. Porochista Khakpour describes the challenges in writing (and rewriting) Iranian America. Through the power of personal narratives, as told by both emerging and established writers, A Map Is Only One Story offers a new definition of home in the twenty-first century.

Introduction / Nicole Chung and Mensah Demary -- Why we cross the border in El Paso / Victoria Blanco -- A map of lost things / Jamila Osman -- My Indian passport is a bitch / Deepti Kapoor -- This hell is not mine / Kenechi Uzor -- Arab past, American present / Lauren Alwan -- How to write about your ancestral village / Steph Wong Ken -- Carefree white girls, careful brown girls / Cinelle Barnes -- Return to partition / Nur Nasreen Ibrahim -- Undocumented lovers in America / Krystal A. Sital -- Say it with noodles / Shing Yin Khor -- My grandmother's patois and other keys to survival / Sharine Taylor -- The dress / Soraya Membreno -- What Miyazaki's heroines taught me / Nina Li Coomes -- How to stop saying sorry when things aren't your fault / Kamna Muddagouni -- The wailing / Nadia Owusu -- Writing letters to Mao / Jennifer S. Cheng -- Dead-guy shirts and motel kids / Niina Pollari -- Mourning my birthplace / Natalia Sylvester -- Should I apply for citizenship? / Bix Gabriel -- How to write Iranian America; or, the last essay / Porochista Khakpour.

From rediscovering an ancestral village in China to experiencing the realities of American life as a Nigerian, the search for belonging crosses borders and generations. Selected from the archives of Catapult magazine, these essays highlight the human side of immigration policies and polarized rhetoric, as twenty writers share provocative personal stories of existing between languages and cultures.

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