Home and awaythe lives and thoughts of immigrants.
These creative works and brief essays by accomplished immigrant writers offer fresh perspectives, images, and insights that richly enhance our cultural imagination. Short creative works in a variety of genrespoetry, fiction, drama, and screenplayaddress issues of truth, secrecy, love, loss, connections, and community. The essays in this volume grapple with the impact of immigration on art. Several of the contributors are well known in their counties of origin but endure obscurity here in Canada, their new home. This collection should serve as a gateway to the recognition of these writers in Canada.
The contributors to this volume come from Egypt, Argentina, Chile, Syria, Pakistan, India, Somalia, Ethiopia, Germany, China, Mexico, Philippines, and Nepal.
With work by: Mohamed Abdi, Aksam Alyousef, Susana Chalut, Leilei Chen, Luciana Erregue-Sacchi, Shimelis Gebremichael, Tazeen Hasan, Alma Mancilla, Anamol Mani, Janine Muster, Mila Philipzig, Kate Rittner-Werkman, Asma Sayed, and Nermeen Youssef.