Where I come from / Vijay Agnew.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Agnew, Vijay, 1946-

Series:

Life writing series.

Life writing series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agnew, Vijay, 1946-.

Agnew, Vijay.

Immigrants--Canada--Biography.

Immigrants.

College teachers--Canada--Biography.

College teachers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""Where do you come from?"" When Vijay Agnew first immigrated to Canada people would often ask her ""Where do you come from?"" She thought it a simple, straightforward question, and would answer in the same simple, straightforward manner, by telling them where she had been born and where she grew up. But over the years she learned that many so-called third-world people resent being asked this question, because it implies that having a different skin colour (which is what usually prompts the question) makes a person an outsider and not really Canadian. This realizat

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Beginning in Canada; 2 An Immigrant Student in Toronto; 3 Girlhood in Delhi; 4 Bombay; 5 History and Herstory; 6 In Search of a Community; 7 Being and Becoming; 8 Returning to Bombay; 9 A Third World Academic; 10 In the Company of Mothers; 11 Fair Play and Safe Places; 12 Lunching with the Ladies; 13 A Canadian in New Delhi; 14 Life among the WASPs; Afterword; Notes; Glossary of Hindi Words and Expressions; Bibliography; Suggested Readings

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references: p. 286-291.

ISBN:

9786610925674

9781280925672

1280925671

9780889209039

0889209030

OCLC:

753479448