| Two Rivers, One Ocean: A Genealogy of Memory was written in the style of a nonfiction long form narrative, a flexible form that permits elements of literary memoir, novelistic narration, and cultural history. This organic form allows each character to tell his/her story. Through oral history and personal memory we travel back in time. The reader re-examines the relationship between a nation and cultural identity, oral tradition and history books, a community and an individual as he/she is defining and redefining themselves. Each chapter is dedicated to an individual voice in this familial tree of narratives. Within each chapter, I tried to reconstruct all the stages of each individual's life's struggles as undocumented and documented citizens of this world. |
