Description
| Product ID: | 9781108814638 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Bread, Cement, Cactus |
| Authors: | Author: Annie Zaidi |
| Page Count: | 166 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: general, Autobiography: general, Memoirs, Migration, immigration and emigration, Social and ethical issues, Rural communities, Urban communities, Social and cultural anthropology, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Memoirs, Migration, immigration & emigration, Social interaction, Rural communities, Urban communities, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, The self, ego, identity, personality, India |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In this prize-winning exploration of the meaning of home, Annie Zaidi reflects on the cultural conflicts in India that have shaped her identity. Zaidi provides a nuanced perspective on land and regional affinity, migration and otherisation, and the ways in which memory works to attach us to a particular place. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-05-28 |
