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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Meena Alexander |
ISBN: | 0896085465 9780896085466 0896085457 9780896085459 |
OCLC Number: | 1037544757 |
Description: | pages |
Contents: | Another Voice -- Piecemeal Shelters -- Art of Pariahs -- Language and Shame -- Alphabets of Flesh -- Passion -- Skin Song -- Whose House is This? -- House of a Thousand Doors -- Hotel Alexandria -- Sidi Syed's Architecture -- Tangled Roots -- Poem by the Wellside -- Boating -- Her Garden -- Erupting Words -- Aunt Chinna -- Coda from Night-Scene -- Bordering Ourselves -- Her Mother's Words -- Ashtamudi Lake -- Translating Violence -- Desert Rose -- Estrangement Becomes the Mark of the Eagle -- Accidental Markings -- Great Brown River -- The Storm: A Poem in Five Parts -- That Other Body -- 'A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse ... ' -- New World Aria -- No Nation Woman -- White Horseman Blues -- Migrant Music -- A Durable Past -- Performing the Word -- For Safdar Hashmi Beaten to Death Just Outside Delhi -- Moloyashree -- Making up Memory -- Brief Chronicle by Candlelight -- San Andreas Fault -- The Shock of Arrival -- Paper Filled with Light -- Fracturing the Iconic Feminine. In Search of Sarojini Naidu -- Theater of Sense -- Aftermath: Title Search -- Well Jumped Women. |
Responsibility: | by Meena Alexander. |
Abstract:
In Shock of Arrival, acclaimed South Asian American poet and novelist Meena Alexander unleashes a fury of prose and poetry to confront the stereotypes and explore the challenges facing postcolonial immigrants in America.
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- East Indian Americans -- Ethnic identity.
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- United States -- Ethnic relations.
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- Immigrantes -- États-Unis.
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- États-Unis -- Relations interethniques.
- Ethnic relations.
- Women immigrants.
- United States.