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Review of Harvesting freedom: The life of a migrant worker in Canada by Gabriel Allahdua

Canadian Food Studies, 2023
The question of migration, land, labour, and food are intricately intertwined. In this book Harvesting Freedom: The Life of a Migrant Farmworker in Canada is a living narrative that recounts life in St.
Noura Nasser
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Excerpts from Bridging Cultures: International Women Faculty Transforming the US Academy

Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2012
This is a pair of excerpts from the anthology Bridging Cultures: International Women Faculty Transforming the US Academy. The book is composed of a series of memoirs by foreign-born women scholars working in various disciplines, in which they reflect on ...
Sarah R. Robbins, Sabine H. Smith, Federica Santini   +2 more
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A Fragmented Memoir [PDF]

Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology, 2008
The following reminiscence by John Moossy is the first in what isintended to be an ongoing, albeit irregular, series published in the Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology. Autobiographies are being solicited from senior members of the neuropathology community, who have been noted leaders and contributors to neuroscience and to the ...
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Many homes for tourism:re-considering spatializations of home and away in tourism mobilities [PDF]

, 2008
Tourism mobilities have long been spatialized as circular structures emanating from a primary home that is opposed to a space of ‘away’. Increasingly complex personal mobilities and experiences with multiple homes, however, challenge the assumptions on ...
Hui, A.
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War and Migration in the White African Tropics: Lauren St John’s Rainbow’s End

eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2016
This paper explores voyage and migration in tropical Africa through Lauren St John’s Rainbow’s End, a memoir contributing to debates of white African identity that now include more contemporary renditions of identity in female self-reflective accounts ...
Richard Gehrmann, Rachel Hammersley-Mather   +1 more
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“Like an object pushed from place to place” – resilience in the time of war and exile in "Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds" (2021) by Mondiant Dogon

Autobiografia
The article discusses the form and functions of Mondiant Dogon’s memoir "Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds: A Refugee’s Search for Home". After a short introduction on the position of the author/narrator/protagonist of the memoir as well as the trauma and
Katarzyna Macedulska
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Review of 'Brother, I'm Dying' by Edwidge Danticat. [PDF]

, 2009
Review of Edwidge Danticat's memoir 'Brother, I'm Dying'
MacLeod, Denise
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Waving at Soldiers

European Journal of Life Writing, 2015
For most writers the first experience of narrative comes from within the family. Facts, opinions, distortions and – very occasionally – truth, are shaped into family stories.
Heather Richardson
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Marina Warner’s Inventory of A Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir. From Memoir to Filiation Narrative

European Journal of Life Writing
Marina Warner’s Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir (2021) is her second work belonging to the genre of life writing, more particularly the memoir.
Souhir Zekri Masson
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Agrobacterium. A Memoir [PDF]

Plant Physiology, 2001
This little memoir is not a review; the reader is directed to current authoritative Agrobacterium reviews with genetic (23) or cell biology emphasis (24). Likewise, this is not an update on recent advances in plant genetic engineering, which are the subject of a recent book (13).
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