Event Title
Finding Home Through Reading
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Location
Janet Ayers Academic Center 4094
Event Website
https://www.belmont.edu/liberal-arts/symposium/index.html
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
27-9-2021 1:00 PM
End Date
9-2021 1:50 PM
Description
It is well understood that books help us create alternative universes, worlds far distant
or close enough that we can easily feel identified with their characters, landscapes,
language. For migrants, though, reading in the native language becomes an act of
resistance against losing memory of words, of worlds that once existed. Reading in
a foreign language, on the other hand, constantly reminds us or our otherness, our
in-between condition. Having the privilege to be able to read in different languages
helps me build a new home, neither there nor here, a home with no physical referents, just with the ethereal pillars of readings.
Recommended Citation
Escribano-Pelaz, Natalia, "Finding Home Through Reading" (2021). Humanities Symposium. 3.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2021/2021/3
Transcript
Finding Home Through Reading
Janet Ayers Academic Center 4094
It is well understood that books help us create alternative universes, worlds far distant
or close enough that we can easily feel identified with their characters, landscapes,
language. For migrants, though, reading in the native language becomes an act of
resistance against losing memory of words, of worlds that once existed. Reading in
a foreign language, on the other hand, constantly reminds us or our otherness, our
in-between condition. Having the privilege to be able to read in different languages
helps me build a new home, neither there nor here, a home with no physical referents, just with the ethereal pillars of readings.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2021/2021/3
