The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial ExperienceSouth End Press, 1996 - 223 pages In this book, 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. Commenting on the history of memory, language, shame, and exile, Alexander poignantly describes the wealth of experiences and imaginings that have shaped her life and writing. Her project: "to make space for what was crossed out in the decorum of femininity, in the high places of classical hierarchy, in the racism of a canonical knowledge, in the obliterations of a national memory ... all this is part of our task, part of the violent, fractured worlds that we must etch into beauty". |
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Reflections on Postcolonial Experience Meena Alexander. About South End Press South End Press is a nonprofit , collectively run book pub- lisher with over 200 titles in print . Since our founding in 1977 , we have tried to meet the needs ...
Reflections on Postcolonial Experience Meena Alexander. About South End Press South End Press is a nonprofit , collectively run book pub- lisher with over 200 titles in print . Since our founding in 1977 , we have tried to meet the needs ...
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... Press , 1994 ) . 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson , " Self Reliance , " in Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson , William H. Gilman , ed . ( New York : New American Library , 1965 ) , 268 . 4. Michel Foucault , Discipline and Punish : The Birth ...
... Press , 1994 ) . 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson , " Self Reliance , " in Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson , William H. Gilman , ed . ( New York : New American Library , 1965 ) , 268 . 4. Michel Foucault , Discipline and Punish : The Birth ...
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