10/29/2022 0 Comments Heavy memoirthat will ring true for many ethnographers. #Heavy memoir professional“Behar finds her professional worth in bearing witness to such lives, and in exquisite prose she relates experiences of generosity. It also has depth, for Traveling Heavy is a book that will remain open to the world, a work that will be savored for many years to come.” - Paul Stoller, Anthropological Research It has breadth, for its compelling narratives will attract a diverse audience of readers who will pour through the pages, delighting in the poignant details underscored by Behar’s life as a person who travels with burdens of past and present. “Ruth Behar’s latest work, Traveling Heavy: A Memoir in between Journeys, is a book filled with grace it is anthropologically contoured text that has legs. “ Traveling Heavy is a collection of pieces that weave together a story well worth reading for years to come.” - Jacquelyn Lazo, Foreword Reviews Through the act of composing a memoir about her search, she writes t Add he lost homeland and the lost self into existence.” - Jane Shmidt, Bookslut Like Kafka, Behar takes part in self-creation. Thus, writing becomes the solution to the search for identity. “In writing, the distance between the world and the self collapses, and the latter becomes a medium through which the former can be understood the world becomes a function of the self. I am the Cubana that Ruth Behar describes in her fascinating new memoir, Traveling Heavy: A Memoir in Between Journeys,’ one that is part of an ‘intensely diasporic people.’” - Judy Bolton-Fasman, Boston Globe When I finally went to Cuba last fall, it was like returning to a place to which I had never been. My mother is Cuban, and to paraphrase Winston Churchill, I may be half Cuban and half American, but there are so many times I feel completely Cuban. “So much of Ruth Behar’s life story resonates with me. Behar has not recovered from her ‘interrupted childhood’ in Havana, and it is this tragedy that makes her who she is, that shapes the ghosts she pursues, that has guided her steps as a subjective anthropologist and that is able to offer the reader a smorgasbord of literary delights." - Marion Fischel, Jerusalem Post " Traveling Heavy is the product of a poetic mind, and the work itself can be regarded as prose poetry. “All those intrigued by their ancestral story will be moved by the personal quest and also by how-with the help of computers as well as the kindness of strangers-the lost can find their way home.” - Hazel Rochman, Booklist “A heartfelt witness to the changing political and emotional landscape of the Cuban-American experience.” - Kirkus Reviews “A moving story of finding oneself through a lifetime of travel, this will be a terrific addition to memoir and Judaica collections.” - Olga Wise, Library Journal #Heavy memoir fullFor those of us who travel heavy with our own baggage, Behar is an indispensable guide, full of grace and hope, in the perpetual search for connection that defines our humanity. Repeatedly returning to her homeland of Cuba, unwilling to utter her last goodbye, she is obsessed by the question of why we leave home to find home. Compassionate, curious, and unafraid to reveal her failings, Behar embraces the unexpected insights and adventures of travel, whether those be learning that she longed to become a mother after being accused of giving the evil eye to a baby in rural Mexico, or going on a zany pilgrimage to the Behar World Summit in the Spanish town of Béjar.īehar calls herself an anthropologist who specializes in homesickness. With an open heart, she writes about her Yiddish-Sephardic-Cuban-American family, as well as the strangers who show her kindness as she makes her way through the world. Through evocative stories, she portrays her life as an immigrant child and later, as an adult woman who loves to travel but is terrified of boarding a plane. Traveling Heavy is a deeply moving, unconventional memoir by the master storyteller and cultural anthropologist Ruth Behar. Labor and Working-Class History Association.Association for Middle East Women's Studies.Author Resources from University Presses.Journals fulfilled by DUP Journal Services.
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