Mother Country

"California liberalism," she once wrote me in an email, hides "super conservatism" underneath a veneer of political correctness. Did she ever tell me about how Grandma had warned her not to hug the newborn chicks, but when she saw them in the coop they were too cute to resist, an...

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Published in:The Virginia quarterly review 2021-07, Vol.97 (2), p.20-5
Main Author: Rodriques, Elias
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Infants
Parents & parenting
Political correctness
Repatriation
Violence
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Summary:"California liberalism," she once wrote me in an email, hides "super conservatism" underneath a veneer of political correctness. Did she ever tell me about how Grandma had warned her not to hug the newborn chicks, but when she saw them in the coop they were too cute to resist, and so she picked one up and drew it close and squeezed until she felt something wet on her feet, suddenly realizing that she'd popped the chick like a balloon, its innards tumbling out? Since 1992, she had lived in no fewer than six places in two different countries, including three states in America. Beyond that, when she spoke about home, she reveled in the idea of wading in rivers and sharing mountain landscapes with animals, which never happened on her hikes in California.
ISSN:0042-675X
2154-6932