Bread, Cement, Cactus A Memoir of Belonging and Dislocation

• Main Author: Zaidi, Annie (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2020
• Series: Social Sciences
• Subjects: Memoirs; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Migration, immigration & emigration; Rural communities; Urban communities; social identity; migration; memoir; contemporary India
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 partic...