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'Hijabi in Jeans is a collection of memoirs about growing up Turkish in Australia. Its about intersectionality and the trauma as well as delight of being a second generation Turkish Australian. It captures the emotions, longings and thoughts of a person who finds herself on the margins, an observer looking from the outside yet finding ways to be inside.' (Publication summary)
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Zoya Patel Reviews Hijabi in Jeans by Isil Cosar
2019
single work
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— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , March no. 23 2019;
— Review of Hijabi in Jeans 2018 selected work poetry'From the very first poem, it is clear that Hijabi In Jeans by H.I. Cosar is a deeply personal, and deeply political collection, entwining the two themes to carry through every piece. Cosar, a Turkish-Australian teacher and writer has spoken of her bilingual, bicultural upbringing and the complexities that entailed (ABC, May 2018), and these experiences are clear influences that flow throughout the collection. There is the sense that Cosar is grappling with her fractured identity on the page, wrestling with cultural demons and trying to find a way through the murkiness that is the migrant experience.' (Introduction)
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Zoya Patel Reviews Hijabi in Jeans by Isil Cosar
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , March no. 23 2019;
— Review of Hijabi in Jeans 2018 selected work poetry'From the very first poem, it is clear that Hijabi In Jeans by H.I. Cosar is a deeply personal, and deeply political collection, entwining the two themes to carry through every piece. Cosar, a Turkish-Australian teacher and writer has spoken of her bilingual, bicultural upbringing and the complexities that entailed (ABC, May 2018), and these experiences are clear influences that flow throughout the collection. There is the sense that Cosar is grappling with her fractured identity on the page, wrestling with cultural demons and trying to find a way through the murkiness that is the migrant experience.' (Introduction)
