| Description |
1 online resource (x, 284 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
| Contents |
Too bad, another girl! -- Home : beams, dreams and food -- Dancing with gods -- Who is Kwame Nkrumah? -- Strangers become "family" -- Vietnam : war or country? -- The trauma of return -- Attachments, made/unmade -- Art connections -- Between being and becoming -- Expanding identities -- Death and life in the diasporic family -- Perceptions and problematics of belonging -- Building communities across borders -- Remaking "home" in the world -- Creating the culture of "us" -- Epilogue: Becoming "family" in a world of pandemics |
| Summary |
"Vishakha N. Desai uses her life experiences to explore the significance of living globally and its urgency for our current moment. She weaves her narrative arc from growing up in a Gandhian household in Ahmedabad to arriving in the United States as a seventeen-year-old exchange student and her subsequent career as a dancer, curator, institutional leader, and teacher against the broad sweep of political and social changes in the two countries she calls home. Through her personal story, Desai reframes the idea of what it means to be global, considering how to lead a life of multiple belongings without losing local and national affinities. Vividly conjuring the complexities and exhilaration of a life that is rooted in many places, World as Family is a vital book for everyone who aspires to connect across borders-real and perceived-and bring to fruition the ideal of a global family"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed May 04, 2021) |
| Subject |
Desai, Vishakha N.
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East Indian American women -- Biography
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Women, East Indian -- United States -- Biography
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Women immigrants -- United States -- Biography
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Intellectuals -- United States -- Biography
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Women college teachers -- United States -- Biography
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Globalization -- Social aspects
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Belonging (Social psychology)
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Communities.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Educators.
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Belonging (Social psychology)
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Communities
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East Indian American women
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Globalization -- Social aspects
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Intellectuals
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Women college teachers
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Women, East Indian
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Women immigrants
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020050774 |
| ISBN |
9780231551588 |
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0231551584 |
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