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Brown women have everything : essays on (dis)comfort and delight /

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As a child growing up in New Delhi, Sayantani Dasgupta wanted to go on adventures involving shipwrecks and treasure chests. Her parents wanted her to stay in school instead. She satisfied her curiosity by drawing maps, inventing languages with friends and reading everything, English adventures, Russ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dasgupta, Sayantani, 1979- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2024].
Subjects:
Dasgupta, Sayantani, > 1979-
Women, East Indian > United States > Biography.
Women, East Indian > Travel.
Women authors > Biography.
Women college teachers > United States > Biography.
Noncitizens.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Becoming this brown woman, or, three glorious accidents
  • Mane story
  • Rinse, repeat
  • Girl in the rum barrel
  • In case of an active shooter
  • A cafĂ© of one's own
  • Chocolate-marmalade green card
  • A tale of two chutneys
  • The boys of New Delhi: an essay in four hurts
  • Killer dinner
  • Fifteen notes on a day job
  • Forty days in Italy
  • The church of Santa Maria Nuova
  • Valentine's day: a fourteen-point meditation on love and other fiery monsters
  • Stranger, wonder, Chicago
  • Nicer in Hindi
  • "Judith and Holofernes"
  • A city in seven metaphors.