Look Homeward, White Girl: Intimacy, Identity, and Place

Abstract

“Look Homeward, White Girl: Intimacy, Identity, and Place” is a creative nonfiction investigation of place. It examines how we get to know a place, what makes a place feel like home, and what effect place has on identity, through the lenses of everyday observation, travel, the ties of ethnic identity and family legacy, the natural environment, social action or inaction, pop culture, and the displacement caused by Hurricane Katrina. It looks at coming of age as a way of coming to terms with the where you come from and what that means.