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This way back / Joanna Eleftheriou

Author
Eleftheriou, Joanna
Uniform Title
Essays. Selections
Published
Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2020.
Copyright Date
©2020
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
1 online resource (vii, 262 pages).
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Contents
The Rope of Desires -- Of Acacia and Maple -- Your Schedule Depends on the Sky -- The Actress Who Isn't Acting -- She and I -- Ithacas -- The Temple of Zeus -- The Other Side -- Wild Honey, Locust Beans -- Unsent Letter to My Father -- Shopping for Story -- Dancing Greek -- Out -- Cyprus Pride -- Inheritance Law -- Without Goodbyes -- Epilogue: Moonlight Elegy.
Summary
"Going back to her ancestral homeland, a Greek American girl discovers she is a lesbian in love with God, so her questions about home and belonging will not be easily answered. This Way Back dramatizes a childhood split between Queens, New York, and Cyprus, an island nation with a long colonial history and a culture to which Joanna Eleftheriou could never quite adjust. While the author's life binds the essays in This Way Back into what reads like a memoir, the book questions memoir's conventional boundaries between the individual and her community, and between political and personal loss, the human and the environment, and the living and the dead"--
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ISBN
9781949199673 (electronic bk.)
1949199673 (electronic bk.)
9781949199666
1949199665
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