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- Title: Border-Crossing and Exile: A Latina's Theological Encounter with Shekhinah
- Author : Cross Currents
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 105 KB
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I neither fled nor chose. And yet in my home I am not at home. And when I travel abroad I recognize on the faces of strangers the familiar look of being from nowhere. Is it really how they are or only my momentary impression as an uprooted passerby? I am of no place, as for time, perhaps I am of a time that shrinks into something outside time. (1) These are the words of non-location that Sebastian Chrest-Jones leaves in his diary before his disappearance. A man of multiple exiles, he is one of the main characters in Julia Kristeva's novel Murder in Byzantium. Aware of his own feelings of dislocation, he comes to be the voice of nomadic existence. Interestingly, his sense of being a nomad in the world is closely connected to the fact that he is a historian of migrations and that he is present only while absent, present via a narrative of fragmented memories, retazos, or bits and pieces of his life left behind in the form of a diary. When he is finally physically present toward the end of the narrative and after he relocates his home in the path of nomads, Sebastian revisits his initial concept of home and concludes, "In via in patria." (2) For him, home is being on the road and with strangers, who like him, belong nowhere.