Contents
Dedication |
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Notes on the Contributors |
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Introduction: Liminal Spaces |
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Part I: Mothering Lands |
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Surrogate Skin: Portrait of Mother (Land) |
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2. |
Until I Hear from You |
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3. |
Electric Dreams |
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Part II: The Ones Who Leave . . . The Ones Who Are Left |
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The Geography of Separation |
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5. |
Transplantation |
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Those Who Remain: Portraits of Amerindian Women |
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7. |
When They Left |
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Part III: Transitions |
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So I Pick Up Me New-World-Self |
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Revisionist |
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10. |
Memories from Yonder |
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A Trace | Evidence of Time Past |
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Part IV: Returns, Reunions, and Rituals |
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Concrete and Filigree |
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A Daughter’s Journey from Indenture to Windrush |
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14. |
Keeping Wake |
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Postface: A Brief History of Migration from Guyana |
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List of Illustrations |
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Acknowledgements |