Our Experience: women from Somalia, Tanzania, Bangladesh and Pakistan write about their lives Item Info
- Title:
- Our Experience: women from Somalia, Tanzania, Bangladesh and Pakistan write about their lives
- Description:
- Our Experience is a collection of stories written by women from Somalia, Tanzania, Bangladesh, and Pakistan about their lives. These women talk about the differences in cultural expectations, including food, money, religion, school, and gender roles. Many focus on their first night in England and how they eventually came to consider England home. Our Experience represents some of the authors’ first writings in English. Some stories are translated into Somali, Ki Swahili, Bengali, or Urdu, and have illustrations.
- Publisher:
- Gatehouse
- Creator:
- Gatehouse
- Date:
- 1996
- Type:
- text
- Subjects:
- living conditions migration food gender women travel Gatehouse poetry anthology Bangladesh bilingual childhood folklore literacy motherhood Pakistan refugee Somalia Swahili Tanzania Urdu education language patriotism religion war
- Language:
- English and others?
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Our Experience: women from Somalia, Tanzania, Bangladesh and Pakistan write about their lives", Digital Collections, FWWCP
- Reference Link:
- https://library.bc.edu/ds/fwwcp/items/fwwcp_tmpid_15_40.html