Ragás, Because the Sea Has No Place to Grab: A Memoir of Home, Migration, and African Liberation

by Sónia Vaz Borges and Maria Isabel Vaz

A memoir of a mother and daughter's return to Cabo Verde reveals the legacies of national liberation, a story of memory and migration, and the psychic and physical landscape that colonialism has wrought.

When Sonia Vaz Borges accompanied her mother, Maria Isabel Vaz, home to Santiago Island, Cabo Verde, it was the first time she experienced the island where her mother and family were born, and where her mother left forty years earlier...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1945335092
• ISBN13: 9781945335099
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Common Notions
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"