Recurrent Themes
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Coping with being between two cultures, two ways of being
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New, spontaneous ways of speaking / singing being better than the limiting
old ways
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The sense of belonging conflicting with moving beyond limitations of one's
culture
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Coming back to positive values of the "old culture" after rebirth into
new identity
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Changing the old culture's symbols of female sexuality and of violence
to women
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The old culture's notions of female domesticity as too limiting a space
for the woman artist
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Survival of sexual, class and cultural conflict by means of a shifting
reinfected self
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A woman merging present time and past memories, individual and collective
voices, for a livable future
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Revising and then laying claim to one's culture's sexual identity (womanhood)
by remembering and re-enacting childhood ties
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An intimate realm of safety ("All brown all around we are safe"), yet remaining
threats of racial, cultural and sexual difference
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Turf and boundary conceived as confrontation, but with language ("Those
Who Don't")