Don't come back / Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas, Lina Maria, author.

Series:

21st century essays

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

xiv, 251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbus : Mad River Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, [2017]

Summary:

In This Collection of Linked Lyrical and Narrative Essays, experimental translations, and reinterpreted myths, Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas explores identity, family history, and belonging, continually examining what it means to feel familiarity but never really feel at home. Don't Come Back intermixes translations of Spanish adages and adaptations of major Colombian myths with personal essays about growing up amidst violence, magic, and an unyielding Andean sun. Home is place and time and people and language and history, and none of these are ever set in stone. Attempting to reconcile the irreconcilable and translate the untranslatable-to move smoothly and cohesively between culture, language, and place-Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas is torn between spaces, between the aunt who begs her to return to Colombia and the mother who tells her, "There's nothing here for you, Lina. Don't come back." Don't Come Back is an exploration of home and identity that constantly asks, "If you really could go back, would you?" Book jacket.

Contents:

Dead mouse prelude

Chiminigagua

BOG-MID-CID

After the Colonel

Catching moths

María, María, María, María

El Coco

Tinfoil astronaut

Bachué

Aurelia

Rueda

Tenjano

A dry tree

Caraba

Nemqueteba

The peach orchard

Practice

Drowning lessons

Lamia

Epigraphist

Burn

Huitaca

The first Jaime

Thinking it was something you could hunt and kill

Empire of toes

The death and burial of Concepción Dolores

Pain pays the income of each precious thing

CID-LAX-BOG.

ISBN:

9780814253953

0814253954

OCLC:

957581374

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