Alison Graham-Bertolini, associate professor of English and women and gender studies, wrote the chapter, “Tracing the Impacts of War in Nadifa Mohamed’s The Orchard of Lost Souls,” published this month in “Reclaiming Migrant Motherhood: Identity, Belonging, and Displacement in a Global Context.”
The 204-page ebook was published by Lexington Books and edited by Maria D. Lombard.
The collection looks at literature, film and original ethnographic research about the lived experiences of displaced mothers. The volume considers the context of the global refugee crisis, forced migration and resettlement as backdrops for the representations and identity development of displaced women who mother.
Graham-Bertolini earned her master’s degree at the University of Pennsylvania and doctorate from Louisiana State University. She is the author of “Vigilante Women in Contemporary American Fiction,” which was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2011.
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