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Call Me Okaasan PDF Print E-mail
Written by Carla Atherton   

Call Me Okaasan: Adventures in Multicultural Mothering
Suzanne Kamata, Ed.
Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing, Inc.
2009



In Call Me Okasaan, Suzanne Kamata explores the challenges of raising multicultural children in a foreign country. The challenges of this are many and profound. The culture we are born into intensely affects what we believe and how we perceive the world. It also defines us and makes us unique to other cultures, yet, in some ways, creates boundaries between us and other people raised in another cultural environment. When we identify with what we have known from birth, to be alone in a place that is different from everything we know can be profoundly lonely. Motherhood is an often lonely, always transformational, journey as it is; Kamata and others in this collection give us some insight about what it's like to perform such a formidable task outside of the comfort of the culture they know.
    
Kamata notes in the introduction: "Throughout this journey, I suspect that we mothers --whether we're called Okaasan, Mutti, Ummi or something else -- will be going through transformations of our own. As this book points out, however, we're all in this together, muddling through, carrying on."

Call Me Okaasan is a collection of excellent essays that address the immense challenges involved in being the "other" in a foreign land mothering the next generation of multi-cultural, multi-racial children.

Click here to get your copy of Call Me Okaasan from McNally Robinson!
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Carla Atherton is a writer and all-round compulsive creator. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Arts in English from the University of Saskatchewan, the work for which was squeezed between writing, mothering, building a house, and starting (ad)ventures. She founded and currently edits and manages Cahoots Magazine and is currently working at Athabasca University in their Women's Studies Department. She also develops and teaches creative writing workshops to people 6-75 and is presently working on a novel (isn't everyone?). Her creative work has appeared in various literary journals, and her thesis-turned-book was published in September 2008 under the title The Poetry of Motherhood. Carla has been a greeting card writer and designer, teacher, researcher, business owner, writer, editor, and publisher. She lives and works in Saskatoon with her three young children, Nicholas, Olivia, and Isabel, and husband, Brent. Carla can most often be found harried and haggard decked out in a babushka and yoga pants feeding watermelon to her children, niece, and the dozens of children in her neighborhood.

Along with acting as Cahoots Magazine's editor-in-chief, Carla writes an arts and entertainment column called Inspired (formerly known as Escapes) and a new column/blog/blurting-out-of-thoughts called Chronicles of a Wannabe Bushwoman for the magazine.
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