Boys will be boys : a daughter's elegy
Sara Suleri Goodyear, Renate Gokl (Book designer, Bookjacket designer)
"Taking its title from that jokingly chosen by her father for his unwritten autobiography, Boys Will Be Boys dips in and out of Suleri Goodyear's upbringing in Pakistan and her life in the United States, moving between public and private history and addressing questions of loss and cultural displacement through a resolutely comic lens
Biography
121 pages ; 23 cm
9780226304014, 0226304019
52178466
BOYS WILL BE BOYS
a daughter's elegyBy SARA SULERI GOODYEAR
The University of Chicago Press
Copyright © 2003 The University of ChicagoAll right reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-226-30401-4
Contents
Boys will be boys.......................................................................................................................1Love demands patience...................................................................................................................10Ask of Kohakan's heart the reality of existence!........................................................................................19There is a wilderness within the wilderness.............................................................................................25My golden town, Kasur!..................................................................................................................31Give birth to your own world, if you are among the living!..............................................................................41Why ask about Mir's religion and beliefs? He has long since drawn a line on his forehead, sat in a temple, andrenounced Islam.........................................................................................................................50There are many brothers here, but few friends...........................................................................................60You are with me, as it were, when no other can be there.................................................................................68The pious keep going to report to the authorities: That Akbar actually names God, in this very age!.....................................75Don't trouble me, you perfumed wind, take to your road! You have frivolity on your mind while I sit here in despair.....................84We are the lover, they the impatiently disdaining: Dear God! What kind of business is this, anyway?.....................................92Long live, you purest land!.............................................................................................................103The point of the tongue.................................................................................................................113
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