Ideas of Home focuses on that specific theme in recent literature; it explores the many challenges to Asian immigrants' sense of self and their conceptions of home. As they emerge from the discussions presented in this collection, the experiences of leaving home and arriving in a new place--and the descriptions of them in literature--are ancient ones that demand self-redefinition and resolution before the "new places" can be sincerely embraced as "home."
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Ideas of Home focuses on that specific theme in recent literature; it explores the many challenges to Asian immigrants' sense of self and their conceptions of home. As they emerge from the discussions presented in this collection, the experiences of leaving home and arriving in a new place--and the descriptions of them in literature--are ancient ones that demand self-redefinition and resolution before the "new places" can be sincerely embraced as "home."
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