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Item Information       Table of Contents     More Content     More by this author     Saint-Onge, Kathleen, 1957-     Subjects     Saint-Onge, Kathleen, 1957-     Saint-Onge, Kathleen, 1957- -- Childhood and youth.     Catholic Church -- Québec (Province)     Adult child sexual abuse victims -- Québec (Province) -- Québec -- Biography.     Bilingualism -- Québec (Province) -- Québec.     Québec (Québec) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Saint-Onge, Kathleen, 1957-       by title:      Bilingual being : my...       by call number:      362.764 S148b     Search the Web     Saint-Onge, Kathleen, 1957-     Saint-Onge, Kathleen, 1957-     Saint-Onge, Kathleen, 1957- -- Childhood and youth.     Catholic Church -- Québec (Province)     Adult child sexual abuse victims -- Québec (Province) -- Québec -- Biography.     Bilingualism -- Québec (Province) -- Québec.     Québec (Québec) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.       MARC Display

Bilingual being : my life as a hyphen / Kathleen Saint-Onge. by Saint-Onge, Kathleen, 1957- McGill-Queen's University Press, c2013. Call #: 362.764 S148b Subjects Saint-Onge, Kathleen, 1957-   Saint-Onge, Kathleen, 1957- -- Childhood and youth.   Catholic Church -- Québec (Province)   Adult child sexual abuse victims -- Québec (Province) -- Québec -- Biography.   Bilingualism -- Québec (Province) -- Québec.   Québec (Québec) -- Social conditions -- 20th century. ISBN:  9780773541191 (hc.) 0773541195 (hc.) Description:  xvii, 328 p. ; 24 cm. Contents:  Prologue -- 1. My Mother Tongue/My Mother's Tongue -- 2. Un Boubou -- 3. A New Linguistic Landscape -- 4. Cultural Borderlands -- 5. Saints and Sinners -- 6. The View from Here -- 7. Insiders and Outsiders -- 8. Religion: The Language of the Bedroom -- 9. My Brother: My Flip Side -- 10. English Roots -- 11. Battle Lines -- 12. Becoming Other -- 13. French Roots -- 14. The Double Frame -- 15. Inheritance -- 16. On Being Not Quite Right -- 17. Shifting Grandmothers -- 18. Ruptures -- 19. Imaginary Companions -- 20. On the Wings of Geese -- 21. The Gifts I Keep -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Poems -- Letter -- Clockwork -- Boxes -- Landslide -- Pirouette -- Mouse House -- Sacrilege -- Undershirt -- Pronoun -- Daisies -- Purple -- Wings -- Definitions -- Thankful -- Party -- Angry bird -- Crafts -- Codes -- Fish -- Etiology -- Installation -- Partridges -- Avalanche -- Libellule/Dragonfly. Summary:  "Written by a survivor of childhood abuse, this moving memoir traces the influence of the author's first language in the formation of her identity, and the role her second language played in providing psychological sanctuary. Kathleen Saint-Onge reflects on the ambiguities of growing up in a primarily French household while attending English schools as she recounts the emotional gains and losses of a life lived in two languages. A testament to the power of language in determining feelings of belonging or alienation, Bilingual Being also presents a portrait of the 1960's in Quebec and the changing role of the Catholic Church. Depicting her own developing independence gained at school, Saint-Onge reveals the tensions between the social world of her evolving English and her deep roots in French-speaking Quebec City. Her story is an exploration of hope where language provides an escape from traumatic memories and a chance to reconstruct a secure sense of self" -- Book Jacket. Genre:  Autobiographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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