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Livres anciens et modernes

Eleftheriou, Joanna

This Way Back

West Virginia University Press, 2020

35,00 €

Kalamos Books

(STREETSVILLE, Canada)

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Détails

Année
2020
ISBN
9781949199666
Lieu d'édition
Morgantown WV
Auteur
Eleftheriou, Joanna
Éditeurs
West Virginia University Press
Thème
CYPRUS MEMOIRS CYPRIOT AMERICAN WRITER
Description
S
Description
Signed by Author(s)
Jaquette
Non
Etat de conservation
Comme neuf
Reliure
Couverture souple
Dédicacée
Oui
Premiére Edition
Non

Description

This Way Back dramatizes a childhood split between Queens, New York, and Cyprus, an island nation with a long colonial history and a culture to which Joanna Eleftheriou could never quite adjust. The book avows a Greek-Cypriot-American lesbian's existence by documenting its scenes: reenacting an 1829 mass suicide by jumping off a school stage onto gym mats at St. Nicholas, harvesting carobs on ancestral land, purchasing UNESCO-protected lace, marching in the island's first gay pride parade, visiting Cyprus's occupied north against a dying father's wish, and pruning geraniums, cypress trees, and jasmine after her father grew too weak to lift the shears. While the author's life binds the essays into what reads like a memoir, the book questions memoir's conventional boundaries between the individual and her community, and between political and personal loss, the human and the environment, and the living and the dead.