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Chang-rae Lee,Mia Alvar,Alexander Chee,Kimiko Hahn,Marilyn Chin,Viet Nguyen

Go Home

  • Jennifer Wongje citiraoпре 6 година
    home they provided for me was not literally just a house. Their home was the act of giving itself, which is also to say the act of love. Going home, in my case, was then a matter of learning how not just to receive but to give, certainly to my own family but also to those who may be my readers.
  • Jennifer Wongje citiraoпре 6 година
    But those who tell us to “go home” are no match for those of us who can write back in the very language used against us.
  • Jennifer Wongje citiraoпре 6 година
    While this preoccupation with home is a universal human concern, it becomes particularly dire for those whose identities make them vulnerable to the threat of never belonging.
  • Jennifer Wongje citiraoпре 6 година
    Through books and stories, the world became my home, a place from which I could never be dispossessed so long as I lived and my mind could roam. For a refugee like me who had lost his country of origin and his mother tongue, a home that could never be lost was a way to always feel safe.
  • Jennifer Wongje citiraoпре 6 година
    While the San Jose library mostly offered the canon of colonizers,
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