Social Science Emigration & Immigration
Íjè
An Immigrant's Voyage into Prince Edward Island Life
- Publisher
- Pownal Street Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2023
- Category
- Emigration & Immigration, Essays, Regional Studies
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781778124563
- Publish Date
- Feb 2023
- List Price
- $26.95
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Description
2024 PEI BOOK AWARD WINNER: Nonfiction
Ije: An Immigrant’s Voyage into Prince Edward Island Life takes its meaning from the Igbo word for journey, and spotlights the narratives of immigrants to Prince Edward Island, shining light on their individual experiences. This collection of personal reflections, interviews, photo essays, and works of art explores the concepts of belonging, imposed and realized identities, cultural traditions, culinary symbols, and living the contradictions of social norms. From chefs to hairdressers, academics to entrepreneurs, Ije encompasses the resilience of a people inspired to innovate their own community-driven solutions.
About the authors
Awards
- Winner, PEI BOOK AWARD WINNER: Nonfiction
Contributor Notes
Essays and Contributors:
The Weight of Love - Elizabeth Iwunwa
Stomach Infrastructure - Tolulope Adesoye
A Celebration of Our Inner Light - Nindiya Sharma
A Taste of Home - Elizabeth Iwunwa
Akos - Chester Hewlett
Our Daily Bread - Rachael Sonola
My Immigration Story - Debbie Langston
Black Lives Matter: Resistance in Black and White - Oniel Kuku & Ugochukwu Nwafor
Silence is My Voice - Charles Ruth
Fleeing Home, Finding Refuge - Elizabeth Iwunwa
Good Hair - Malak Usman
The Power of Community - Mary-Ann Lamai
The Bridge from One Present to Another - John Shabaan
Ancestors - Martins Madumere
Chicken Paprikash - Chef Ilona Daniel
Home and Abroad: Contradictory Social Locations - Dr. Charles Adeyanju
Food: My Tether to Home - Via Reyes
Children of the Diaspora - Shaka Joshua Tarichia
News from Mali - Mamadou Sanogo
Tomorrow Comes Today - Daniel Ohaegbu & Jonah Chininga
Editorial Reviews
“Immigration is so much more than simply moving to a new place. Ije is a brilliant anthology that captures stories rarely considered from the citizen’s perspective yet experienced so rawly and felt so deeply from the immigrant’s perspective. Ije is the book that PEI needs in this very moment.”
Tamara Steele, Director of the Black Cultural Society of PEI
“Elizabeth Iwunwa is the right-on-time curator of this righteous assembly of views, interviews, art, and photos, all depicting the Come-From-Far-Away Islanders who have found anchorage in the harbour of Confederation and a new homeland on soil as red and promising as the dawn. Charming and charismatic, personable and penetrating, Iwunwa maps a community of Islanders whose odysseys have taught them that all of Earth is an island, one where we all must find refuge, amid the endless, bone-chilling ocean of space.”
George Elliott Clarke, Author of Where Beauty Survived: An Africadian Memoir (Knopf Canada)