Babylon, Albion
Dalia al-Dujaili
Sachbuch / Biographien, Autobiographien
Beschreibung
I have ancient land inside of me. Inside of me, there is a river. In fact, rivers. Inside of me, the Euphrates and the Tigris and the Nile converge to meet the pebbles of Brighton Beach, where my mother taught me the pure pleasure of a 99p Flake. Whoever said nature is still has not borne witness to the migration of the seasons. In this striking exploration of identity and place, Dalia Al-Dujaili considers what it means to belong in your land. Tracing the rich heritage of both the oak and the date palm, Iraqi marshes and Loch Ness monsters, Al-Dujaili marries Arab and Islamic mythology with the English and Christian pastoral. She draws from a rich array of sources to consider in a new light the communal lush, wild – and at times, dark – places we share. A love song to Britain, Iraq and the body of earth we hold in common, Babylon, Albion is an urgent reimaging of what it means to be native.
Kundenbewertungen
ancestry, narratives, English, representation, colonialism, reconstruction, exile, nostalgia, roots, boundaries, Christian, diaspora, pastoral, Arab, intersections, culture, transformation, displacement, belonging, journeys, origins, borders, landscapes, migration, remembrance, fragmentation, Islamic, history, modernity, storytelling, territory, natural environment, influence, tradition, connection, hybridity, heritage, mythology, place, symbolism, imagination, home, identity, memory