What the oceans remember searching for belonging and home
Prologue -- Tumbling stones -- The facts -- Van Gogh's nose -- La vie en rose -- Opa's books -- Lineage -- Due south -- Disruptions -- Roosje -- Slavenregisters -- Broko Pranasi -- Joorayee -- Oceans -- Unfoldings -- Epilogue.
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
2019
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| Schriftenreihe: | Life writing series
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Prologue -- Tumbling stones -- The facts -- Van Gogh's nose -- La vie en rose -- Opa's books -- Lineage -- Due south -- Disruptions -- Roosje -- Slavenregisters -- Broko Pranasi -- Joorayee -- Oceans -- Unfoldings -- Epilogue. "It's a memoir that traverses five continents and spans two centuries. Author Boon explores archives, family stories, and her own memories in a search for origins, belonging, and home. Her journey is interwoven with reflections on the meaning of music, love, legacy, freedom, memory, ruin, and the relevance of our past to understanding our present."-- "Author Sonja Boon's heritage is complicated. Although she has lived in Canada for more than thirty years, she was born in the UK to a Surinamese mother and a Dutch father. Boon's family history spans five continents: Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, South America, and North America. Despite her complex and multi-layered background, she has often omitted her full heritage, replying "I'm Dutch-Canadian" to anyone who asks about her identity. An invitation to join a family tree project inspired a journey to the heart of the histories that have shaped her identity. It was an opportunity to answer the two questions that have dogged her over the years: Where does she belong? And who does she belong to?Boon's archival research--in Suriname, the Netherlands, the UK, and Canada--brings her opportunities to reflect on the possibilities and limitations of the archives themselves, the tangliness of oceanic migration, histories, the meaning of legacy, music, love, freedom, memory, ruin, and imagination. Ultimately, she reflected on the relevance of our past to understanding our present.Deeply informed by archival research and current scholarship, but written as a reflective and intimate memoir, What the Oceans Remember addresses current issues in migration, identity, belonging, and history through an interrogation of race, ethnicity, gender, archives and memory. More importantly, it addresses the relevance of our past to understanding our present. It shows the multiplicity of identities and origins that can shape the way we understand our histories and our own selves."-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-305) and index |
| Beschreibung: | xv, 314 pages illustrations, maps 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781771124232 978-1-77112-423-2 1771124237 1-77112-423-7 |