Coming Here, Being Here
A Canadian Migration Anthology
La description
“Here is a shifting of borders, a redrawing of maps, a constant making and remaking of worlds in the one dwelling we have in common: language. ” – Tamas Dobozy, winner of the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
This migration anthology is an entertaining miscellany of memoir, essays, newspaper reportage, and even poetry, highlighting the humour as well as the ironies and agonies generated when humans seek a new homeland. The authors and their stories are as diverse as our Canadian population itself, and help to tell who we all are within this amazing, tolerant, nurturing and sometimes frustrating geographic space called Canada.
Reviews
Here is a shifting of borders, a redrawing of maps, a constant making and remaking of worlds in the one dwelling we have in common: language.
- Tamas Dobozy, author of When X Equals Marylou, Last Notes and Other Stories, and Siege 13, winner of the Rogers/ Writers Trust of Canada Fiction Award
Who are we in Canada? … The essays in this collection explore the meaning of relocation to Canada and the effects on later generations. Each author colours this life-changing experience with the culture of his or her ethnic origins.
- Joseph Pivato, Professor Emeritus, Athabasca University