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- Title
Migration and Melancholia: In Search of Self through Jasmine Warga's Other Words for Home.
- Authors
Dalal, Sanghamitra
- Abstract
In this article I will read Jordanian American author, Jasmine Warga's middle-grade verse-narrative Other Words for Home (2019) to examine how the young, twelve-year old protagonist, Jude, combats her loss and pain and how she retrieves her self-esteem in an emblematic manner as she migrates as a Syrian refugee to the United States. Drawing from my theoretical discussion on melancholia I will argue that introjecting any loss does not impoverish the ego, but can also invoke alternative ways toward emancipation and self-worth. Consequently, my discussion will highlight how children's voices are required to be heard to reimagine the complexities of migration and melancholia in promising ways. It will also emphasize the need for re-considering the unfortunate predicaments of forced migrations as it contains opportune ways of generating a sense of conviviality in the midst of similarities and differences.
- Subjects
UNITED States; JASMINE; FORCED migration; SYRIAN refugees; AMERICAN authors; SELF; REFUGEE children; SELF-esteem
- Publication
Agathos: An International Review of the Humanities & Social Sciences, 2023, Vol 14, Issue 2, p147
- ISSN
2069-1025
- Publication type
Article