The long road home: migratory experience and the construction of the self |
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Authors: | Kerner Furman Frida |
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Affiliation: | Department of Religious Studies, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, 60604, USA. ffurman@depaul.edu |
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Abstract: | Using autobiographical narratives, this article explores the experience and role of childhood immigration in the ongoing construction of self-identity. A variety of border-crossings are considered in the child's journey from cultural marginalization to acculturation into American society. Continuing feelings of displacement and loss into adulthood-common tropes in adult narratives-are then examined, as are immigrants' efforts to creatively address aspects of a hybrid identity, e.g., via "return trips" to the homeland or through the deployment of a double vision in the interest of social and political inclusiveness. |
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