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Home, for me, was not a birthright, but an invention. It seems to me when we speak of home we are speaking of several things, often at once, muddled together into an uneasy stew. We say home and mean origins, we say home and mean belonging. These are two different things: where we come from, and where we are. Writing about belonging is not a simple task. Esi Edugyan chooses to intertwine fact and fiction, objective and subjective in an effort to find out if one can belong to more than one place, if home is just a place or if it can be an idea, a person, a memory, or a dream. How "home" changes, how it changes us, and how every farewell carries the promise of a return. Readers of Canadian literature, armchair travellers, and all citizens of the global village will enjoy her explorations and reflections, as we follow her from Ghana to Germany, from Toronto to Budapest, from Paris to New York.… (altro)
This is another excellent lecture from the University of Alberta’s lecture series (available also digitally, I believe). I have enjoyed all of those I’ve read thus far. As the title suggests, Edugyan’s lecture is about home & belonging…
"…It seems to me when we speak of hie we are speaking of several things, often at once, muddled together into a uneasy stew. We say home and mean origins, we say home and mean belonging. These are two different things: where we come from, and where we are".
Edugyan’s lecture mixes questions, ideas, and vignettes in a thought-provoking stew. I found myself thinking back to the many of the books I’ve read that seem to wrestle with the ideas of belonging and home, and of course my own ideas on the subject. The book is a short read, but it’s content lingers, isn’t that the best kind of lecture? ( )
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For Kofi and Abena and as ever, for Steven.
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I want to begin by telling you a story. It is almost entirely true.
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I, who had lived so much of my life looking elsewhere, was slowly coming to acknowledge that not-belonging, also, can be a kind of belonging.
Nationhood, as we think of it today, is an idea not much more than 200 years old; already in our ever-shrinking world it feels somewhat musty and faded at the seams, confused by matters of identity, race, geography, language.
The first person of African descent to set foot on Canadian soil, or the soil we would one day call Canadian, arrived in 1603 with Champlain. He was a freeman named Mathieu da Costa. "Freeman" was an important designation; any black person not legally "freed" was by default a slave.
Just then one of the smiling women leaned over to me and yelled, through her beautiful white teeth, "Eh, Obruni, why don't you come home?" and she held me in her strong arms. I could smell the flour in her soft, warm skin. Come home, she'd said. Not go home. It wasn't until later that I learned obruni meant White Person.
I do not think home is a place, only. Nor do I think belonging is the most important of our possibilities, long for it though we might. I believe home is a way of thinking, an idea of belonging, which matters more to us than the thing itself. Where we are, who we are, who we are with: these are so intertwined as to be inseparable. What we owe to ourselves we owe to others.
Home, for me, was not a birthright, but an invention. It seems to me when we speak of home we are speaking of several things, often at once, muddled together into an uneasy stew. We say home and mean origins, we say home and mean belonging. These are two different things: where we come from, and where we are. Writing about belonging is not a simple task. Esi Edugyan chooses to intertwine fact and fiction, objective and subjective in an effort to find out if one can belong to more than one place, if home is just a place or if it can be an idea, a person, a memory, or a dream. How "home" changes, how it changes us, and how every farewell carries the promise of a return. Readers of Canadian literature, armchair travellers, and all citizens of the global village will enjoy her explorations and reflections, as we follow her from Ghana to Germany, from Toronto to Budapest, from Paris to New York.
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"…It seems to me when we speak of hie we are speaking of several things, often at once, muddled together into a uneasy stew. We say home and mean origins, we say home and mean belonging. These are two different things: where we come from, and where we are".
Edugyan’s lecture mixes questions, ideas, and vignettes in a thought-provoking stew. I found myself thinking back to the many of the books I’ve read that seem to wrestle with the ideas of belonging and home, and of course my own ideas on the subject. The book is a short read, but it’s content lingers, isn’t that the best kind of lecture? (