Where I Come From
著者
書誌事項
Where I Come From
(Life writing series)
Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2003
大学図書館所蔵 全1件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Bibliography: p. 286-291
内容説明・目次
内容説明
""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 realization inspired her to look more closely at the question - and the answer. The result is this book.
Where I Come From is a reflective memoir of an immigrant professor's life in a Canadian university. It covers the period from 1967, when Canada was opened up to third-world immigrants, to the present. The book illustrates the ways in which identity is socially constructed by tracing some of the labels that were applied to the author at various stages during her thirty years in Canada - ""foreign student,"" ""Indian woman,"" ""immigrant,"" ""Indian feminist,"" and ""third-world woman."" She shows how each of these names has affected her relationships with other people and contributed to making her the woman she is now perceived to be: a feminist, anti-racist, activist professor. This multilayered story reveals the complex ways in which race, class, and gender intersect in an immigrant woman's life, and engages readers in a conversation that narrows the distance between them, showing not only what is different, but what is shared.
目次
Where I Come From by Vijay Agnews
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
15. Life among the WASPs
Afterword
Notes
Glossary of Hindi Words and Expressions
Bibliography
Suggested Readings
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