Most of us would agree that passion fuels our aims better than discipline or elbow grease alone. Passion’s dark side — anger — may be the best defense of our identity, and a future that looks like us.
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What expat bloggers are made of
Posted in culture, history, identity, memoir, society, women, tagged art, artist, best-of lists, blog, blogger, Bulgarian, Canakkale, Catherine Yigit, Cindy King, cross-cultural, exile, expat, expat+HAREM, expatriate, foreign, gender role, immigrant, international, Izmit, Petya Kirilova Grady, provenance, review, Rose Deniz, Sea of Marmara, SheWrites, Tennessee, Turkey on January 18, 2010 | 17 Comments »
Expat bloggers flourish when we face a fresh appreciation for who we are, where we come from — and what we’re made of.
Does expat lit deserve its own shelf?
Posted in culture, history, identity, memoir, society, tagged #litchat, assimilation, bias, book, bookstore, collective consciousness, colonial literature, cultural embrace, Deborah Davidson, emigree, Emmanuelle Archer, expat, expatriate, genre, global citizen, immigrant, Jennifer Eaton Gokmen, library, literature, literature of place, M. Dominique Benoit, Nassim Assefi, outsider view, Third Culture Kid, travel, travel writing, travelogue, Twitter, vicarious living on November 19, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Expatriate literature may be stocked in the travel-memoir-classics section, but does it deserve a shelf of its own? Highlights from a week of Twitter #litchat about the unique depths of outsider cultural views from the inside
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