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Home - An Imagined Landscape (Paperback)
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Home - An Imagined Landscape (Paperback)
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Loot Price R539
Discovery Miles 5 390
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"Our century has become marked by the distinct, bitter tinge of
nomadism and emigration." The sixteen essays in this book are by
writers from diverse parts of the world recalling their experiences
and emotions of what is meant by the concept of Home. Each essay is
written with evocative and often lyrical tones of great beauty as
well as lucidity. Many of the essays describe homes that exist no
longer, and homes that have changed or disappeared through time.
Yet the power of place is real: each author understands that Home
belongs to the landscape of the imagination, with a power to
recover and to transform. It is perhaps no coincidence that all of
the contributors make their home in the USA, a nation that has
defined itself by its emigrant imagination and a nation that has
allowed its immigrants to be Americans while also holding on to who
they were in the past. Through their experiences, the authors are
both outsiders and insiders. They carry their dreams of homeland
wherever they settle, for Home is never lost but real in its
evocation and the power to remember.
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