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ERIC Number: EJ1348650
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 12
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EISSN: EISSN-1913-5688
"Where Are You 'Really' From?": "Mapping" the South Asian Diasporic through Poetic Inquiry
Patel, Shyam
LEARNing Landscapes, v15 n1 p299-310 Spr 2022
For the South Asian diasporic, questions about (be)longing and identity are almost undeniable. Through a personal reflection, I contour these experiences by way of poetic inquiry, specifically interrogating "performing" Canadian-ness (Alvi, 2020) and the meaning of "home" (Badruddoja, 2006) that are a part of the living pedagogy of immigrant families navigating the "status" of emigration. It is in that intermediary of "straddling cultural divide" (Sharrif, 2008) that words of poetry emerge, tantalizing a processual capitulation of (be)longing and identity formation; that is, the constant trail of navigating the in-between of "here nor there" and the (im)possibilities that this hyphenation offers.
LEARN (Leading English Education and Resource Network). 2030 Dagenais Blvd West, 2nd Floor, Laval Quebec H7L 5W2 Canada. Web site: https://learninglandscapes.ca/index.php/learnland
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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