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The shock of arrival : reflections on the postcolonial experience

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
Print Book, English, 1996
South End Press, Boston, MA, 1996
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9780896085466, 9780896085459, 0896085465, 0896085457
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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