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What the Oceans Remember: Searching for Belonging and Home
Contributor(s): Boon, Sonja (Author)
ISBN: 1771124237     ISBN-13: 9781771124232
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
OUR PRICE:   $25.19  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: September 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - African American & Black
- Social Science | Emigration & Immigration
- Social Science | Women's Studies
Dewey: B
Series: Life Writing
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.12" W x 8.11" (1.15 lbs) 328 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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Sonja Boon's heritage is complicated. She has lived in Canada for over 30 years but was born in the UK to a Surinamese mother and a Dutch father. An invitation to join a family tree project inspired a journey to the heart of the histories that have shaped her identity, as she sought to answer two questions: Where does she belong? And who does she belong to?

Boon's archival research--in Suriname, the Netherlands, the UK, and Canada--brings her opportunities to reflect on the possibilities and limitations of the archives themselves, the tangliness of oceanic migration, histories, the meaning of legacy, music, love, freedom, memory, ruin, and imagination. Ultimately, she reflected on the relevance of our past to understanding our present.

Deeply informed by archival research and current scholarship, but written as a reflective and intimate memoir, What the Oceans Remember addresses current issues in migration, identity, belonging, and history through an interrogation of race, ethnicity, gender, archives and memory. More importantly, it addresses the relevance of our past to understanding our present. It shows the multiplicity of identities and origins that can shape the way we understand our histories and our own selves.

Contributor Bio(s): Boon, Sonja: - Sonja Boon is Associate Professor of Gender Studies at Memorial University. An award-winning researcher, writer, and teacher, Boon is the author of three scholarly monographs, the most recent titled Autoethnography and Feminist Theory at the Water's Edge: Unsettled Islands (2018). For six years, she was principal flutist with the Portland Baroque Orchestra in Oregon.