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Don't Come Back

Don't Come Back

Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas, Lina María

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Series: 21st Century Essays

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ISBN10: 0814253954
ISBN13: 9780814253953
Publisher: Mad Creek Books
Published: Jan 20 2017
Pages: 253
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
In this collection of linked lyrical and narrative essays, experimental translations, and reinterpreted myths, Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas launches into an exploration of home and identity, family history and belonging, continually examining what it means to feel familiarity but never really feel at home.

Don't Come Back intermixes translations of Spanish adages and adaptations of major Colombian myths with personal essays about growing up amidst violence, magic, and an unyielding Andean sun. Home is place and time and people and language and history, and none of these are ever set in stone. Attempting to reconcile the irreconcilable and translate the untranslatable--to move smoothly and cohesively between culture, language, and place--Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas is torn between spaces, between the aunt who begs her to return to Colombia and the mother who tells her, There's nothing here for you, Lina. Don't come back. Don't Come Back is an exploration of home and identity that constantly asks, If you really could go back, would you?

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