Don't Come Back by Lina Cabezavanegas

Don't Come Back by Lina Cabezavanegas

In this collection of linked lyrical and narrative essays, experimental translations, and reinterpreted myths, Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas launches into an exploration of home and identity, family history and belonging, continually examining what it means to feel familiarity but never really feel at home.

Don't Come Back intermixes translations of Spanish adages and adaptations of major Colombian myths with personal essays about growing up amidst violence, magic, and an unyielding Andean sun. Home is place and time and people and language and history, and none of these are ever set in stone. Attempting to reconcile the irreconcilable and translate the untranslatable-to move smoothly and cohesively between culture, language, and place-Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas is torn between spaces, between the aunt who begs her to return to Colombia and the mother who tells her, There's nothing here for you, Lina. Don't come back. Don't Come Back is an exploration of home and identity that constantly asks, If you really could go back, would you?

Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas is the winner of the 2016 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, author of Drown/Sever/Sing, and Visiting Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University.

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ISBN 13	9780814253953
ISBN 10	0814253954
Title	Don't Come Back
Author	Lina Cabezavanegas
Series	21st Century Essays
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Mad River Books
Year published	2017-01-20
Number of pages	253
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