Bread, cement, cactus : a memoir of belonging and dislocation / Annie Zaidi ; with original illustrations by Yasmin Zaidi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zaidi, Annie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zaidi, Annie.

Authors, Indic--21st century--Biography.

Authors, Indic.

Women authors, Indic--20th century--Biography.

Women authors, Indic.

Journalists--India--Biography.

Journalists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 159 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Contents [delete if appropriate].

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Jun 2020).

Includes bibliographical references.

This work is made available as Open Access under a Creative Commons Open Access license CC-BY-NC 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0

Local Notes:

Nine Dots prize, 2018

ISBN:

1-108-89286-8

1-108-88693-0

OCLC:

1159169704

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access