The Resource This is one way to dance : essays, Sejal Shah
This is one way to dance : essays, Sejal Shah
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- Summary
- "In the linked essays that make up her debut collection, This Is One Way to Dance, Sejal Shah explores culture, language, family, and place. Throughout the collection, Shah reflects on what it means to make oneself visible and legible through writing in a country that struggles with race and maps her identity as an American, South Asian American, writer of color, and feminist. This Is One Way to Dance draws on Shah's ongoing interests in ethnicity and place: the geographic and cultural distances between people, both real and imagined. Her memoir in essays emerges as Shah wrestles with her experiences growing up and living in western New York, an area of stark racial and economic segregation, as the daughter of Gujarati immigrants from India and Kenya. These essays also trace her movement over twenty years from student to teacher and meditate on her travels and life in New England, New York City, and the Midwest, as she considers what it means to be of a place or from a place, to be foreign or familiar. Shah invites us to consider writing as a somatic practice, a composition of digressions, repetitions-movement as transformation, incantation. Her essays-some narrative, others lyrical and poetic-explore how we are all marked by culture, gender, and race; by the limits of our bodies, by our losses and regrets, by who and what we love, by our ambivalences, and by trauma and silence. Language fractures in its attempt to be spoken. Shah asks and attempts to answer the question: How do you move in such a way that loss does not limit you? This Is One Way to Dance introduces a vital new voice to the conversation about race and belonging in America."--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiii, 185 pages
- Contents
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- Deluxe
- Thank You
- Pelham Road
- There Is No Mike Here
- Things People Said: An Essay in Seven Steps
- Temporary Talismans
- Six Hours from Anywhere You Want to Be
- No One Is Ordinary; Everyone Is Ordinary
- Ring Theory
- Saris and Sorrows
- Voice Texting with My Mother
- Isbn
- 9780820357232
- Label
- This is one way to dance : essays
- Title
- This is one way to dance
- Title remainder
- essays
- Statement of responsibility
- Sejal Shah
- Subject
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- trueEast Indian American women -- Biography
- trueEast Indian Americans
- East Indian Americans -- Ethnic identity
- Essays
- trueEthnic identity
- trueGrowing up
- trueIdentity (Psychology)
- trueIntersectionality
- trueMultiracial persons -- Biography
- Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography
- Shah, Sejal, 1972-
- trueSocial acceptance
- trueGujarati Americans -- Biography
- Autobiographies
- trueChildren of immigrants -- Biography
- trueChildren of immigrants -- United States -- Biography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In the linked essays that make up her debut collection, This Is One Way to Dance, Sejal Shah explores culture, language, family, and place. Throughout the collection, Shah reflects on what it means to make oneself visible and legible through writing in a country that struggles with race and maps her identity as an American, South Asian American, writer of color, and feminist. This Is One Way to Dance draws on Shah's ongoing interests in ethnicity and place: the geographic and cultural distances between people, both real and imagined. Her memoir in essays emerges as Shah wrestles with her experiences growing up and living in western New York, an area of stark racial and economic segregation, as the daughter of Gujarati immigrants from India and Kenya. These essays also trace her movement over twenty years from student to teacher and meditate on her travels and life in New England, New York City, and the Midwest, as she considers what it means to be of a place or from a place, to be foreign or familiar. Shah invites us to consider writing as a somatic practice, a composition of digressions, repetitions-movement as transformation, incantation. Her essays-some narrative, others lyrical and poetic-explore how we are all marked by culture, gender, and race; by the limits of our bodies, by our losses and regrets, by who and what we love, by our ambivalences, and by trauma and silence. Language fractures in its attempt to be spoken. Shah asks and attempts to answer the question: How do you move in such a way that loss does not limit you? This Is One Way to Dance introduces a vital new voice to the conversation about race and belonging in America."--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10895525
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1972-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Shah, Sejal
- Dewey number
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- 818/.603
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3619.H3483
- LC item number
- Z46 2020
- Literary form
- essays
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Series statement
- Crux : the Georgia series in literary nonfiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Shah, Sejal
- Gujarati Americans
- Children of immigrants
- East Indian American women
- Racially mixed people
- East Indian Americans
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- essays
- Label
- This is one way to dance : essays, Sejal Shah
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-185)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Deluxe -- Thank You -- Pelham Road -- There Is No Mike Here -- Things People Said: An Essay in Seven Steps -- Temporary Talismans -- Six Hours from Anywhere You Want to Be -- No One Is Ordinary; Everyone Is Ordinary -- Ring Theory -- Saris and Sorrows -- Voice Texting with My Mother
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- xiii, 185 pages
- Isbn
- 9780820357232
- Lccn
- 2020001681
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1123230007
- Label
- This is one way to dance : essays, Sejal Shah
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-185)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Deluxe -- Thank You -- Pelham Road -- There Is No Mike Here -- Things People Said: An Essay in Seven Steps -- Temporary Talismans -- Six Hours from Anywhere You Want to Be -- No One Is Ordinary; Everyone Is Ordinary -- Ring Theory -- Saris and Sorrows -- Voice Texting with My Mother
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- xiii, 185 pages
- Isbn
- 9780820357232
- Lccn
- 2020001681
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1123230007
Subject
- trueEast Indian American women -- Biography
- trueEast Indian Americans
- East Indian Americans -- Ethnic identity
- Essays
- trueEthnic identity
- trueGrowing up
- trueIdentity (Psychology)
- trueIntersectionality
- trueMultiracial persons -- Biography
- Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography
- Shah, Sejal, 1972-
- trueSocial acceptance
- trueGujarati Americans -- Biography
- Autobiographies
- trueChildren of immigrants -- Biography
- trueChildren of immigrants -- United States -- Biography
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