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Book SynopsisWhat is home? The answer seems obvious. But
Telling Our Stories of Home, an international collection of eleven plays by and about women from Lebanon, Haiti, Venezuela, Uganda, Palestine, Brazil, India, UK, and the US, complicates the answer. The answer includes stories as far-ranging as: enslaved women trying to create a home, one by any means necessary, and one in the ocean; siblings wrestling with their differing devotion to home after their mother's death; a family wrestling with the government''s refusal to allow the burial of their soldier-son in their hometown; a young scholar attempting to feel at home after studying abroad; a young man fleeing home due to his sexual orientation only to discover the difficulty of creating home elsewhere, and Siddis (Indians of African descent) continuing to struggle for acceptance despite having lived in India for over 600 years. These are voices seldom represented to a larger audience. The plays and performance pieces range from 20 to
Table of Contents1. Acknowledgement 2. Introduction by Kathy A. Perkins
The Plays ·
The House by Arzé Khodr (
Lebanon) ·
Happy by Kia Corthron (
U.S.) ·
The Blue of TheIsland by Évelyne Trouillot (
Haiti) ·
Nine Lives by Zodwa Nyoni (
UK) ·
Leaving, but Can't Let Go by Lupe Gehrenbeck (
Venezuela) ·
Questions of Home by Doreen Baingana (
Uganda) ·
On the Last Day of Spring by Fidaa Zidan (
Palestine) ·
Letting Go and Moving On by Louella Dizon San Juan (
U.S.) ·
Antimemories of an Interrupted Trip by Aldri Anunciação (
Brazil) ·
So Goes We by Jacqueline E. Lawton (
U.S.) ·
Those Who Live Here, Those Who Live There by Geeta P. Siddi and Girija P. Siddi (
India)
