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Bread, cement, cactus : a memoir of belonging and dislocation

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.

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Series Title
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Call Number
828.9208 ZAI b
Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.,
Collation
vi, 159 p. : ill
Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
9781108886932
Classification
828.9208
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Edition
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Subject(s)
India
Women authors, Indic
Authors, Indic
Journalists
Belonging (Social psychology)
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