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"Winning a scholarship to Oxford in the late 1940s was regarded by my parents' friends as representing the triunph of, and justification for, my upbringing. But I knew in my heartbof hearts that i was the beginning of a lifelong escape attempt. Did I believe that escape was possible? I suspect not. But I had no option but to proceed as if it were."
— Sep 16, 2024 08:06AM
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"The diasporic challenges the idea of whole, integral, traditionally unchanging cultural identities. No identities survive the diasporic process intact and unchanged."
— Sep 19, 2024 04:00PM
Carmen
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"We tend to think of identity as taking us back to our roots, the part of us which remains essentially the same across time. In fact identity is always a never-completed process of becoming- a process of shifting identifications, rather than a singular, complete, finished state of being."
— Sep 14, 2024 09:00AM
