Bread, Cement, Cactus: A Memoir of Belonging and Dislocation

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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. This title is also available as Open Access.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781108814638
ISBN-10: 1108814638
Pagini: 166
Dimensiuni: 138 x 215 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Acknowledgements; 1. Survivors Shall be Prosecuted; 2. Gur, Imarti, Goons; 3. Listening to Mother; 4. The Wandering Brother; 5. Passport to Irrecoverable Places; 6. Mixed Blood; 7. Outsiders at Home; 8. Grave Politics; 9. Place Like Home; Select Bibliography.

Recenzii

'A wonderful book. A profound journey through memory, language, land and culture. Beautifully written, soberly devised, exquisitely sensitive to nuance. It grapples with identity fractured, identity remade, identity reclaimed, and elevates memoir to a literary art form.' Bidisha, journalist, broadcaster, film-maker and author of Asylum and Exile: Hidden Voices
'Annie Zaidi's gripping memoir of her brave, persistent and poignant search for a place to call her own will ring many bells in many hearts. It is a timely account of the uprooting and alienation of a contemporary Indian woman who is one amongst a multitude of other minorities.' Lord Meghnad Desai, Member of the House of Lords, and author of The Raisina Model: Indian Democracy at 70 and The Rediscovery of India
'Zaidi resets the perspectives from which we understand and remember the experience of home. With the same intuitiveness that permeates her sensitive fictions, she uses the personal to lay bare the new universality of home, redefining it as an unsettled, turbulent condition that we must continuously contend, negotiate, and compromise with to our incremental loss.' Musharraf A. Farooqi, author of Between Clay and Dust and The Merman and the Book of Power
'A compelling exploration of the intimate and political sides of an itinerant life. … (A) haunting evocation of belonging and dislocation in contemporary India.' Ashish Ghadiali, The Observer

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In this prize-winning exploration of the meaning of home, Annie Zaidi reflects on places, cultures and conflicts that shape identity.

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