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In this article I examine the representation of bullying in Felita (1979) and Going Home (1986), two novels by Nicholasa Mohr, an important but critically overlooked author of the Puerto Rican Diaspora. Using material from current research in the social sciences as well as a close reading of the texts, I explore the emergence of the female subject from behind her self-definition as a victim of girl-bullying. The girl's involvement with art enables her to move from the role of object to that of subject. That involvement not only counteracts the negative effects of bullying but also brings the girl to a deeper understanding of her culture and herself. That the author would then reengage bullying episodes from these novels in a memoir written later provides a powerful example of the author's writing back to the tween whose experiences inspired her work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on Simão Kikamba’s semi-autobiographical novelGoing Home(2005) and Jonathan Khumbulani Nkala’s one-man dramaThe Crossing(2009). Both texts chronicle the odyssey of the refugee author or narrator – in Kikamba’s text from Angola and in Nkala’s drama from Zimbabwe – to South Africa. I argue that although these works picture the growing transnational texture of the South African national space, this apparent continental connectivity is fraught with new intolerances like xenophobia. Far from displaying a definite break from the hallmarks of South African writing during apartheid, such as a preoccupation with the national and a focus on social commitment, the texts stress a continuation of these characteristics while at the same time re-examining them from a new, Afropolitan angle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article projects the suffering of women as represented in Lakshmi Kannan's "Going Home" and Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things" with reference to the Hindu Succession Act 1956 and 2005. Kannan, in the preface of her novel, vents her anger at postindependent Indian society's failure to guarantee property and inheritance rights to Indian women. Roy's novel, however, reflects on the plight of married middle class career woman compelled to cross over from private sphere to the public.

A literary criticism of several literary works by Nicholasa Mohr is presented, including the books “Nilda,” “Going Home,” and “Growing Up Inside the Sanctuary of My Imagination.” The classification of Mohr's novels as children's literature is considered, as is Mohr's representation of the Puerto Rican diaspora in her writing. Issues of gender and agency in Mohr's work are also explored.

Focuses on a rationale for the use of children's literature to study Mexico and to learn about Mexican children. 'Amelia's Road,' by Linda Jacobs Altman and illustrated by Enrique O. Sanchez; 'A Day's Work,' by Eve Bunting and illustrated by Ronald Himler; 'Going Home,' by Eve Bunting and illustrated by David Diaz.