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Displaced Lives : Fiction, Poetry, Memoirs, and Plays from Four Continents / Frank Stewart.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Mānoa ; 35
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (211 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Human displacement is an old phenomenon; however, the dislocation of people in the twenty-first century has been unprecedented. At the end of 2019, over 260 million people were living outside their countries of birth. Some are forced to relocate—by violence, wars, hunger, persecution, and other causes—and some are voluntary migrants. A single term cannot define who they are or why they are on the move.For those uprooted by force, the psychological and spiritual loss of homeland can be devastating. The millions who are mentally uprooted—because of war-induced PTSD, addiction, and aging—can suffer similar displacement and trauma.Through outstanding fiction, poetry, memoir, and drama, the authors in Displaced Lives vividly depict the responses and emotions of ordinary people to displacement, a devastating and widespread crisis of our time.Authors are from Bangladesh, Canada, Cuba, China, Germany, India, Ireland, Iran, Israel, Macedonia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Pakistan, the Philippines, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, and the U.S.Featured is a portfolio of photographs by Serena Chopra, taken in the Tibetan refugee colony of Majnu Ka Tilla, Delhi.
- Contents:
- Displaced Lives
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Editor’s Note
- Essay
- Borderlands
- Poetry
- Statue of Liberty
- The Traveler
- Good Night
- Fiction
- Bhasha India
- The Missing
- Pig
- Werewolf
- Neve Shalom, September 2014
- Wulkan
- Vanilla Crumble
- Performance
- Turning your body into a compass
- Return of the Exiles
- In a Silent City
- The Serpent
- The Speculative Fiction Writer
- At Wagah
- Two Poems
- Something Growing
- Fox-Sparrow
- Claude McKay Describes His Own Life
- Six Poems from Harlem Shadows
- Bread
- Yesterday and Today
- The Subhuman and His Habitat
- Lament for Mrs. Mones
- The Rehearsal
- Big White Bird
- Dera Baba Nanak
- Grandmas
- Tonghui River in Beijing
- Gil
- Self
- Five Prose Poems
- The Souls of Shah Alam Camp
- The White Night Photo Studio
- The Flower of All Water
- Refused a Visa at the U.S. Embassy
- About the Photographer
- About the Contributors
- Permissions
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780824888046
- 0824888049
- OCLC:
- 1153484619
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