Notes of Today Reading

Diaspora, Memory, and Identity, A search for Home, edited by Vijay Agnew, University of Toronto Press (2005)

Completed! The two pieces, which I like the best are Diaspora and Cultural Memory by Anh Hua and Memories of Internment: Narrating Japanese-Canadian Women’s Life Stories by Pamela Sugima. In a way the two pieces are most relevant for my research while the rest of the book helps me to think how to frame the interviews when I am going to do some intensive interviews with the Vietnamese Diaspora community in Ottawa Chinatown.

I like this piece by Dunlop

I hear them behind me in another continent
accross the Indian Ocean
crossing the floors, soft sweep of sandals
in my mother's country. I was born there four
decates ago at 2am. My birth certificate reads
One Living Female Child

Today my passport reads nationality: Canadian.