What the Oceans Remember
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What the Oceans Remember

Searching for Belonging and Home

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What the Oceans Remember

Searching for Belonging and Home

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About This Book

Sonja Boon's heritage is complicated. Although she has lived in Canada for more than 30 years, she 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 that have dogged her over the years: 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.

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Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9781771124249
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. Author’s Note
  9. Timeline
  10. Prologue
  11. 1. Tumbling Stones
  12. 2. The Facts
  13. 3. Van Gogh’s Nose
  14. 4. La Vie en Rose
  15. 5. Opa’s Books
  16. 6. Lineage
  17. 7. Due South
  18. 8. Disruptions
  19. 9. Roosje
  20. 10. Slavenregisters
  21. 11. Broko Pranasi
  22. 12. Joorayee
  23. 13. Oceans
  24. 14. Unfoldings
  25. Epilogue
  26. Acknowledgements
  27. Notes
  28. Bibliography
  29. Index