http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/my-new-world-journey Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sun, 19 Apr 2026 05:24:16 -0400 Sun, 19 Apr 2026 05:24:16 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/166/the-american-immigrant-a-roach-in-the-glue--examining-the-work-of-hemon-and-kambanda By Brian Richards - At the conclusion of her essay, “My New World Journey,” Nola Kambanda writes that “Sometimes I am not sure whether home is behind me or in front of me…I might just be attaching [this longing] to those things that are familiar to me…it might not be a place at all…home might be family…It might be the people who make me feel” (155). However, at the conclusion of his short story, “Blind Jozef Pronek,” Aleksandar Hemon writes of his protagonist’s perception of home, and hardly any of his description fits finely into Kambanda&rsquo... Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:07 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/166/the-american-immigrant-a-roach-in-the-glue--examining-the-work-of-hemon-and-kambanda