Room to fly : a transcultural memoir / Padma Hejmadi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hejmadi, Padma, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hejmadi, Padma--Travel.

Hejmadi, Padma.

Authors, Indic--20th century--Biography.

Authors, Indic.

East Indians--Foreign countries--Biography.

East Indians.

Women--India--Biography.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1999]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Room to Fly is a unique journal--or ongoing memoir--by a woman who traces the elusive contours of cultural perceptions East and West, welcoming us into the intimate geography of individual lives. The book takes its shape and direction from a tenet of Japanese Sumi painting: If you depict a bird, give it space to fly. Padma Hejmadi explores the human spaces surrounding language, landscape, literacy and illiteracy, music, dance, legend, the cadence of ancient craft, and the ceaselessly unfolding layers of family relationships. Part autobiography, part lively meditation, Room to Fly represents a new genre with an old diction. Hejmadi's spare, luminous prose combines lyricism with humor and intellectual rigor, drawing us from Bombay to the Bahamas, from Japan to New England, the Greek Isles to New Mexico.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Prologue

Glorious Illiteracy

Wet Pavements

Lines in the Dark

Shifts, Journeys, Transformations

Singing Saints and Others

Curve of the Mind

Places Making People Making Places

Cadences of Craft

Dance Story

Bitter Gourd and Green Mango

Cessation and Continuity

E p i l o g u e

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Okt 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520921450

0520921453

OCLC:

1202624928