{"id":7835,"date":"2010-08-30T22:03:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T22:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7835"},"modified":"2016-07-13T14:12:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T14:12:21","slug":"you-have-given-me-a-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7835","title":{"rendered":"You Have Given Me a Country"},"content":{"rendered":"

You Have Given Me a Country<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sarabande Books<\/a>
\n2010-08-15
\n208 pages
\n9 x 6
\nPaperback ISBN: 13: 978-1-932511-82-6<\/p>\n

Neela Vaswani<\/a><\/strong>, Teacher in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program
\nSpalding University<\/em><\/p>\n

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You Have Given Me a Country<\/em> is a mixed-genre exploration of blurred borders, identity, and what it means to be bicultural. Combining memoir, history, and fiction, the book follows the paths of the author’s Irish-Catholic mother and Sindhi-Indian father on their journey towards each other and the biracial child they create. Vaswani’s second full-length work thematically echoes such books as The<\/em> Color of Water<\/em><\/a>, Running in the Family<\/em>, or Motiba’s Tatoos<\/em>, but is entirely unique in approach, voice, and story. The book reveals the self as a culmination of all that went before it, a new weave of two varied, yet ultimately universal backgrounds, that spans continents, generations, languages, wars, and, at the center of it all, family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You Have Given Me a Country Sarabande Books 2010-08-15 208 pages 9 x 6 Paperback ISBN: 13: 978-1-932511-82-6 Neela Vaswani, Teacher in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program Spalding University You Have Given Me a Country is a mixed-genre exploration of blurred borders, identity, and what it means to be bicultural. Combining memoir, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,459,125,8,15],"tags":[3216,1988],"class_list":["post-7835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-history","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-novels","tag-neela-vaswani","tag-sarabande-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48267,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835\/revisions\/48267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}