Research Catalog

Title

Black girl from Pyongyang : in search of my identity / Monique Macias ; with Becky Branford.

Author

Macias, Monica, 1972-

Publication

• Richmond : Duckworth Books, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

Branford, Becky

Description

xiv, 289 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

In 1979, seven-year-old Monica Macias was sent by her father Francisco, the president of Equitorial Guinea, to the beautiful, unfamiliar surroundings of North Korea, to be educated under the guardianship of Kim Il Sung. Within months, her father was executed in a military coup; her mother became unreachable. Effectively orphaned, she and two siblings had to make their life in Pyongyang. At military boarding school, Monica learned to mix with older children, speak fluent Korean and handle weapons on training exercises. But, reaching adulthood and hearing about life beyond North Kroea's borders, she yearned to go in search of her roots. Her journey took her to Madrid, Malabo, then New York, Seoul, and finally London, and with every step she was forced to reckon with her own beliefs about the West and its perceptions of her adopted homeland. Optimistic yet unflinching, Monica's astonishing and unique story challenges us to see the world through different eyes. - dust jacket

Subject

• Women immigrants > Korea (North)
• Africans > Korea (North)
• Women authors, African
• Equatorial Guinea
• North Korea
• Equatorial Guineans
• youth
• personal narratives (form)
• Africans
• Emigration and immigration
• Women immigrants
• Equatorial Guinea > Emigration and immigration
• Korea (North)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes notes.

Contents

Part 1: In Pyongyang -- Broken Memories -- Orphaned -- Escape -- Obiang's Envoy -- Survival Test -- Mother Tongue, the Betrayal of Memory -- At Last, A College Student -- "You Are Korean!" -- "Because You Grew Up In Pyongyang" -- Towards Beijing -- Doubt -- The Farewells -- Leaving Pyongyang -- Part 2: In the West -- Madrid -- Zaragoza -- To Malabo -- Homesick -- Silvia -- One More Step Towards Capitalism -- Ruthless -- The Daughter of Evil? -- Are We from the Same World? -- Visiting Pyongyang After Ten Years -- Adios Madrid, Hello New York -- Dreaming of Seoul -- The Two Cities Furthest Apart in the World -- Fangpąol -- Dr Pipa -- The First Coup d'Etat -- Two Sides of the Same Coin -- The Money -- Part 3: Consolidation -- London Calling -- Anguish -- The Funeral -- SOAS -- Forgiveness

Call Number

DS935.7773.M33

ISBN

• 9780715654309
• 0715654306
• 9780715654316
• 0715654314
• 9780715654323 (canceled/invalid)
• 0715654396 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

60002501920

OCLC

• on1372499299
• 1372499299
• SCSB-14535327

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries