Kith
By: Divya Victor
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Fence Books; BookThug
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Albany; Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781934200575
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Race; Poetry; Immigrants
Work titles: Poems
Description: "Kith [noun] one's friends, acquaintances, neighbours, or relations. In Kith, award-winning writer Divya Victor engages Indian-American diasporic culture in the twentieth century, via an autobiographical account that explores what 'kith' might mean outside of the national boundaries of those people belonging to the Indian and Southeast Asian diasporas. Through an engagement with the effects of globalization on identity formation, cultural and linguistic exchange, and demographic difference, Kith explores questions about race and ethnic difference: How do 'brownness' and 'blackness' emerge as traded commodities in the transactions of globalization? What are the symptoms of belonging? How and why does 'kith' diverge from 'kin,' and what are the affects and politics of this divergence? Historically-placed and wellresearched, Kith is an unflinching and simultaneous account of both systemic and interpersonal forms of violence and wounding in the world today."--
Notes: Poems.