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Migritude / by Shailja Patel.

Title
Migritude / by Shailja Patel.
Author
Patel, Shailja
Publication
New York : Kaya Press ; New York : Distributed by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers., c2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Monegato, Emanuele
  • Reddy, Vanita, 1977-
Description
v, 153 p. : ill.; 19 cm.
Summary
"The U.S. debut of internationally acclaimed poet and performance artist Shailja Patel, Migritude is a tour-de-force hybrid text that confounds categories and conventions. Part poetic memoir, part political history, Migritude weaves together family history, reportage and monologues to create an achingly beautiful portrait of women's lives and migrant journeys undertaken under the boot print of Empire. Patel, who was born in Kenya and educated in England and the U.S., honed her poetic skills in performances of this work that have received standing ovations throughout Europe, Africa and North America. She has been described by the Gulf Times as "the poetic equivalent of Arundhati Roy" and by CNN as "the face of globalization as a people-centered phenomenon of migration and exchange." Migritude includes interviews with the author, as well as performance notes and essays." -- Amazon.
Subject
  • Patel, Shailja
  • 2000-2099
  • Poets, American > 21st century > Biography
  • Performance artists > United States > Biography
Genre/Form
Biographies
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Foreword: Speaking of saris / Vijay Prashad -- Migritude -- Shadow book -- The Making and other poems -- The journey -- Migritude timeline -- On Migritude: a conversation with Shailja Patel / Emanuele Monegato -- Come for the saris, stay for the politics: interview with Shailja Patel / Vanita Reddy.
ISBN
  • 9781885030054
  • 1885030053
LCCN
^^2010035260
OCLC
  • 630504894
  • SCSB-10592788
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library