In her examination of migrant literature, Azade Seyhan eloquently and metaphorically remarks: “literary expressions of contemporary sociopolitical formations offer critical insights into the manifold meanings of history and take us to galaxies of experience where no theory has gone before” (5). Seyhan poetically encapsulates an assertion shared by Appiah, Mohanty and Satrapi about the power of creative texts to help us interpret and alter the world in which we live by forming and embracing connections. Broderies is a textual invitation to engage in open-ended, border-crossing conversation that may enable us to not only see correlations between cosmopolitanism and feminism but to move from theorization to feminist-cosmopolitan practice. Indicative of this feminist- cosmopolitan practice is conversation that brings together many voices and stories, focuses on women’s experiences, connects individuals across valued differences, resists national impositions and ideologies, interrogates hegemony, and witnesses the complexities of human encounters across time and place. Broderies beckons our attention and action. Let’s read it, talk about it, and teach it—in relation to other stories, of course—and laugh together. (128)
