Beschrijving

On Narrative and Becoming is both an intimate and a political act, an autobiographical genre-blendingnovel that traces one woman’s journey across decades, continents, and interior landscapes. With emotional precision and psychological depth, Kismatali invites readers to witness the making of a self, and the courage required to speak where silence once lived.

Arriving in Toronto in 1968 at age 20, Kismatali began the long process of her becoming*,* through study, work, motherhood, and persistent negotiation of identity in a new land. Her writing confronts the double silencing of Asian-Caribbean women, first within the broader discourse, and again within patriarchal literary traditions that have rendered them one-dimensional.

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