Almost Home (eBook)

Finding a Place in the World from Kashmir to New York

Githa Hariharan (Autor)

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2016
304 Seiten
Restless Books (Verlag)
978-1-63206-063-1 (ISBN)

Infos

“In essays that bespeak a thoroughly cosmopolitan sensibility, Githa Hariharan not only takes us on illuminating tours through cities rich in history, but gives a voice to urban people from all over the world—Kashmir, Palestine, Delhi—trying to live with basic human dignity under circumstances of dire repression or crushing poverty.” —JM CoetzeeWhat does a medieval city in South India have in common with Washington, D.C.? How do people in Kashmir envision the freedom they long for? To whom does Delhi, city of grand monuments and hidden slums, actually belong? And what makes a city, or any place, home? In ten intricately wrought essays, renowned author Githa Hariharan takes readers on an eye-opening journey across time and place, exploring the history, landscape, and people that have shaped the world’s most fascinating and fraught cities. Inspired by Italo Calvino’s playful and powerful writing about journeys and cities, Harihan combines memory, cultural criticism, and history to sculpt fascinating, layered stories about the places around the world—from Delhi, Mumbai, and Kashmir to Palestine, Algeria, and eleventh-century Córdoba, from Tokyo to New York and Washington. In narrating the lives of these places’ vanquished and marginalized, she plumbs the depths of colonization and nation-building, poverty and war, the struggle for human rights, and the day-to-day business of survival. Almost Home: Finding a Place in the World from Kashmir to New York presents a new kind of travel writing that is intellectually adventurous but never detached, couched in personal experience but deeply engaged in the world, inviting the reader to make surprising connections with her own sense of home. 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.3.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Algeria • Anthology • Bangalore • Bengaluru • best books about cities • best books about home • best books about imperialism • best books about marginalized people • best female essayists • best Indian writers • best travel essay collections • Bombay • chennai • Coimbatore • Collection • Colonialism • Commonwealth Writers’ Prize winners • Córdoba • Culture • D.C. • Delhi • Denmark • essays about place • female Indian travel writers • female South Asian writers • finding belonging • foreign writers in the United States • Fugitive Histories • Githa Hariharan • Granada • Hampi • Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act • History • Home • imperialism • India • indian writers • international • International Writers • In Times of Siege • Japan • Kashmir • Madras • Manila • Marginalized people • Mumbai • New Delhi • New York • Old Delhi • Ootacamund • Ooty • Palestine • Postcolonial literature • South Asian travel writers • South Asian writers • the art of dying • The Ghosts of Vasu Master • The Thousand Faces of Night • Tocqueville • Tokyo • travel essays • Travelogue • Washington • When Dreams Travel • writers from Coimbatore • writers like Annie Dillard • writers like Bruce Chatwin • writers like Italo Calvino • writers like Pico Iyer • writers like Zadie Smith
• ISBN-10: 1-63206-063-9 / 1632060639
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63206-063-1 / 9781632060631