Description
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.
About the Author
Sejal Shah is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in fiction. Her essays and stories have appeared in Brevity, Conjunctions, the Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, the Rumpus,and the collection Under Her Skin: How Girls Experience Race in America, among other publications. She has taught creative writing at the University of Rochester, Mount Holyoke College, and elsewhere. She lives in Rochester, New York.
Book Information
ISBN 9780820357232
Author Sejal Shah
Format Paperback
Page Count 200
Imprint University of Georgia Press
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Weight(grams) 280g