Bread, cement, cactus : [electronic resource] a memoir of belonging and dislocation /
Zaidi, Annie
Bread, cement, cactus : a memoir of belonging and dislocation / [electronic resource] Annie Zaidi ; with original illustrations by Yasmin Zaidi - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020 - online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Survivors shall be Prosecuted -- Gur, Imarti, Goons -- Listening to Mother -- The Wandering Brother -- Passport to Irrecoverable Places -- Mixed Blood -- Outsiders at Home -- Grave Politics -- Place like Home
"In this exploration of the meaning of home, Annie Zaidi reflects on the places in India from which she derives her sense of identity. She looks back on the now renamed city of her birth and the impossibility of belonging in the industrial township where she grew up. From her ancestral village, in a region notorious for its gangsters, to the mega-city where she now lives, Zaidi provides a nuanced perspective on forging a sense of belonging as a minority and a migrant in places where other communities consider you an outsider, and of the fragility of home left behind and changed beyond recognition. Zaidi is the 2019/ 2020 winner of the Nine Dots Prize for creative thinking that tackles contemporary social issues. "--
9781108886932
WOMEN AUTHORS, INDIC--20TH CENTURY--BIOGRAPHY
JOURNALISTS--INDIA--BIOGRAPHY
PR 9499.4.Z35 / Z34B 2020
Bread, cement, cactus : a memoir of belonging and dislocation / [electronic resource] Annie Zaidi ; with original illustrations by Yasmin Zaidi - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020 - online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Survivors shall be Prosecuted -- Gur, Imarti, Goons -- Listening to Mother -- The Wandering Brother -- Passport to Irrecoverable Places -- Mixed Blood -- Outsiders at Home -- Grave Politics -- Place like Home
"In this exploration of the meaning of home, Annie Zaidi reflects on the places in India from which she derives her sense of identity. She looks back on the now renamed city of her birth and the impossibility of belonging in the industrial township where she grew up. From her ancestral village, in a region notorious for its gangsters, to the mega-city where she now lives, Zaidi provides a nuanced perspective on forging a sense of belonging as a minority and a migrant in places where other communities consider you an outsider, and of the fragility of home left behind and changed beyond recognition. Zaidi is the 2019/ 2020 winner of the Nine Dots Prize for creative thinking that tackles contemporary social issues. "--
9781108886932
WOMEN AUTHORS, INDIC--20TH CENTURY--BIOGRAPHY
JOURNALISTS--INDIA--BIOGRAPHY
PR 9499.4.Z35 / Z34B 2020