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Migritude
by Shailja Patel
Praise for Migritude:
"...[E]xemplifies globalization as a people-centered phenomenon of migration and exchange..."
—CNN Traveller
"What Arundhati Roy is to imperialism/fascism/racism in prose, Patel is to them in poetry."
—The Gulf Today (United Arab Emirates)
"[Patel] brings out what it means to be a woman in an empire..."
—San Francisco Chronicle
Description:
Kaya Press is proud to announce that we will be publishing Shailja Patel's Migritude. Part poetic memoir, part performance tour-de-force, Migritude invokes the power and dignity of outsider status in telling her story of African and Asian roots. Patel, a second generation South Asian brought up in Kenya, draws upon letters from her mother, conversations with her father, slam poetry, meditations on anatomy and neurobiology, and Swahili children’s songs to explore masculinity and mother tongues, migrants and race.
A portion of Migritude was published as a bilingual (Italian-English) poetry collection by Lietocolle (Italy) in 2008, and shortlisted for the prestigious 2009 Premio Lettarario Camaiore international poetry prize.
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