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Title: Goja
Condition: New
Author: Suniti Namjoshi
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1875559973
EAN: 9781875559978
ISBN: 9781875559978
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Genre: Biography
Topic: Society & Culture, Social Sciences
Release Date: 01/05/2000
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: AU
Item Height: 130mm
Item Length: 195mm
Item Width: 6mm
Item Weight: 123g
Release Year: 2000
Description: I had thought once that I felt most at home in a plane in mid-air, but that isn’t true. I belong to India and to the West. Both belong to me and both reject me. I have to make sense of what has been and what there is.Suniti Namjoshi traverses the cultures of the East and of the West. She muses on the patterns of her life, and of the impact of colonisation, both the resistances and the acceptances of it. Growing up a princess in the ruling house of Maharashtra, the two most important relationships in her life were with her grandmother, the Ranisaheb, and with Goja, the servant woman who slept beside her bed.When she was ten her test pilot father was killed in an air accident and Suniti was sent away to boarding school. After working in the Indian Civil Service for some years, she decided that she wanted to be a poet and she moved to the West. In the US and Canada she became just another brown-skinned immigrant without the privileges of her childhood.

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