Crevice: A Life Between Worlds - Couverture souple

Redsand, Anna

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798991179089

Editeur : Choeofpleirn Press, 2025

Synopsis

It's impossible for an ordinary human to exist in two places at the same time. Or is it? In Crevice: A Life Between Worlds, Anna Redsand writes that wherever she is in the world, she will always be living on the edge of Dinétah, in a place she calls "Home Not Home." Dinétah is the Diné (Navajo) name for the Navajo Nation, where Redsand grew up as the daughter of evangelical missionaries. Until she was sixteen, she didn't question whether she belonged; she was simply there.

When the question arose, with it came the gradual recognition that someone who lives in an In-Between space sees, hears, and understands things not always grasped by people on either side of that split. From that vantage, Redsand tells about her not so ordinary life and about where she now stands in relationship to postcolonial Diné and Bilagáana (White) cultures. She explores her world through the lenses of language, relationship, and place––connection with the land. This book is for anyone who has questioned whether they belong, anyone who delights in experiencing new places and ways of life, or anyone who has spent a good part of their life in an interstitial space. Join Redsand in her “Home Not Home” to appreciate the insights living in such spaces imparts to our worldviews.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Anna Redsand shares many characteristics of other Adult Third Culture Kids (ATCKs), having spent most of her developmental years in a culture other than that of her parents. Perhaps the most notable of those traits is restlessness; she has moved seventy-one times, lived in three countries on as many continents, in all four hemispheres, and in eighteen US communities. She has also enjoyed living on the road. Life between postcolonial Diné (Navajo) and White cultures has deeply influenced her writing.Anna's previous memoir, To Drink from the Silver Cup, explores the intersectionality of religion, spirituality, and sexuality in her life. Her first book, Viktor Frankl: A Life Worth Living, is a biography of the Holocaust survivor and author of Man's Search for Meaning. Her essays, poems and stories have been published in Solstice, DoveTales, Isthmus, Clockhouse, Fireweed, Rockhurst Review, Mount Hope Magazine, Spaces, Friends Journal, and Gallup Journey. They have also been anthologized in Wet and Fertile. Her essay "Naturalization" was notable in Best American Essays 2014. Most recently she co-authored an article in the monograph, Honoring Our Indigenous Languages and Cultures. Diné readers of her work have said her voice is both important and essential.Today, Anna works as a writer, a Danish-to-English translator, and an editor. She has worked as a linguist, educator, psychotherapist, hospice caregiver, operating room technician, housecleaner, and supermarket cashier. She enjoys travel, hiking, and engaging with other readers. She also makes fiber art and paper collages. She lives far from her Southwest home in the Danish Village of Elk Horn, Iowa, to be near her daughter and grandchildren but gets back to Navajo Country as often as possible. Anna identifies as a cisgender lesbian.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Choeofpleirn Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798991179089
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 223
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