title: Listening to the Grandmother Tongue: Writers on Other-Languaged Grandparents and Transcultural Identity
abstract: In Transcultural Identities in Contemporary Literature, Irene Gilsenan Nordin et al. make an important and still often unrecognized point: "imaginative literature offers a powerful means of exploring transcultural experience and grappling with the challenges it poses to individuals and societies alike" (x). Arguably, writers who explore transcultural experience through reflective memoir offer particularly valuable takes on the challenges it poses.
journal: Biography