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Writing out of limbo : international childhoods, global nomads and third culture kids / edited by Gene H. Bell-Villada and Nina Sichel ; with Faith Eidse and Elaine Neil Orr.

Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoNewcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub.,
Descriptionix, 486 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Other author/creatorBell-Villada, Gene H., 1941-
Other author/creatorSichel, Nina.
Other author/creatorEidse, Faith.
Other author/creatorOrr, Elaine Neil.
Contents Introduction / Gene H. Bell-Villada and Nina Sichel -- pt.1. Foundations. Third culture kids / Ruth Hill Useem and Richard D. Downie ; Cross-cultural kids : the new prototype / Ruth E. Van Reken ; Raised in the margin of the mosaic : global nomads balance worlds within / Norma M. McCaig ; Explaining differences : TCKs and other CCKs, American and Japanese TCKs / Ann Baker Cottrell -- pt. 2. Reflections. Finding home : John Liang ; Reframing / Faith Eidse ; Jubilee / Charity Schellenberg ; The colors and culture of home / Nancy Miller Dimmock ; A canary sings on the road to Athens / Kathleen Daniel ; Artist in transit : a fusion of art and identity / Cathleen Hadley ; Returning to my parents' foreign "home" / Emily G. Hervey ; Continental shifts / Anna Maria Moore ; Outsider / Nina Sichel -- pt. 3. Explorations. Lemonade for the Gringa : advice for and from teenaged global nomads / Patricia Linderman ; Vignettes from another perspective : when cultural hierarchies matter at an international school / Danau Tanu ; The religious lives of adult missionary kids / Nancy Henderson-James ; Echoes of loss : long-term grief and adaptation among third culture kids / Kathleen R. Gilbert and Rebecca J. Gilbert ; Four third culture kids : one portrait / Laila Plamondon ; Memory, language, and identity : the search for self / Liliana Meneses ; Finnish expatriate families and their children : a complementary viewpoint / Anu Warinowski ; Domestic students or foreign? : when U.S.-global nomads return "home" to college / Bruce La Brack ; Global nomads : cultural bridges for the future / Alice Shu-Hsien Wu -- pt. 4. Reconfigurations. Documenting mobility / Maureen A. Burns ; Khartoum Romeo, Delhi Juliet / Greg Clinton ; "I know who I am" / Leyla Rouhi ; The stranger self : a pattern in narrative / Elaine Neil Orr ; On Jean Rhys, Barbara Kingsolver, and myself : reflections on a problem that has no set name / Gene H. Bell-Villada ; Colonial mothers and cosmopolitan third culture kids : Doris Lessing's Under my skin / Alice Ridout ; Checked baggage : writing Unpacked / Elizabeth Liang ; On making BRATS / Donna Musil -- pt. 5. End paper. Le français / Maya Goldstein Evans.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2012358639
ISBN9781443833608
ISBN1443833606

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