What comes first, the hybrid self or the hybrid life? Are our most resonant peers made or born?
Posts Tagged ‘Third Culture Kid’
Ring my bell
Posted in American culture, culture, friendship, harem, identity, society, women, tagged Art is Dialogue, Asia, California, Catherine Salter Bayar, Catherine Yigit, China, citizen of the world, creative expression, Czech Republic, Dialogue2010, discussion series, dual citizenship, Dutchwoman, Elmira Bayrasli, Europe, expat+HAREM, global citizen, global nomad, Holland, hybrid life, hybrid self, Italy, Jocelyn Eikenburg, Judith van Praag, Karen Armstrong Quartarone, kindred spirit, location independent, mapping, Netherlands, New York, Pacific Northwest, Rose Deniz, Sezin Koehler, Tara Lutman Agacayak, Third Culture Kid, Turkey, United Nations, Washington, writing on March 2, 2010 | 27 Comments »
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
Rolling stone
Posted in American culture, culture, identity, society, tagged Asia, Asian-American, Dow Jones, East, Far Eastern Economic Review, geographical cure, global nomad, home, homesickness, Kodokan, Los Angeles, Manhattan, PEN American Center, Philadelphia, Pico Iyer, progressive, Third Culture Kid, traditional, travel writer, Tropical Classical, West, World Voices on September 24, 2009 | 10 Comments »
If nowhere in the world is home, all the world is home. Happy syllogism or rootless predicament?
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