Natasha Sajé

Terroir (eBook, ePUB)

Love, Out of Place

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The word "terroir" refers to the climate and soil in which something is grown. Natasha Sajé applies this idea to the environments that nurture and challenge us, exploring in particular how the immigrant experience has shaped her identity. She revisits people and literature across her life, including her experiences as the child of European refugees in suburban New Jersey, taken under the wing of a widowed neighbor; a winter spent waitressing in Switzerland; her marriage to a Jamaican man in Baltimore; and finally her marriage to a woman in Salt Lake City.

This memoir-in-essays combines poetic lyricism with incisive commentary on nationality, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and class. Reminding us that change is constant in our lives, Sajé asks how terroir creates identity. Throughout, the English language is her most fertile ground.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Trinity University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781595349330
• Artikelnr.: 60095850

Autorenporträt

Natasha Sajé was born "stateless" in Germany and immigrated to the United States with her Eastern European parents, who were both displaced persons. She is the author of three award-winning poetry collections, most recently Vivarium; the postmodern poetry handbook Windows and Doors: A Poet Reads Literary Theory; and numerous essays, poems, and works of literary criticism. She is a professor of English at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, where she resides.