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Fault Lines Anniversary Edition
Contributor(s): Alexander, Meena (Author), Wa Thiong'o, Ngugi (Foreword by)
ISBN: 1558614540     ISBN-13: 9781558614543
Publisher: Feminist Press
OUR PRICE:   $16.10  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: October 2003
* Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Passionate, fierce, and lyrical, Meena Alexander's memoir traces her evolution as a postcolonial writer from a privileged childhood in India to a turbulent adolescence in the Sudan and then to England and New York City. In this tenth-anniversary edition of "Fault Lines," this Alexander challenges the assumptions of life as a South Asian American woman writer in a post-9-11 world. With poetic insight and an honesty that will galvanize readers-both familiar and new-Alexander reveals her difficult recovery from a long-buried childhood trauma that revolutionizes the entire landscape of her memory: of her family, of her writing process and the meaning of memoir, and of her very self, now and before.

Meena Alexander is a poet and professor of English and creative writing at Hunter College and the City University of New York.

Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Literary Criticism | American - Asian American
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2003049504
Series: Cross-Cultural Memoir (Paperback)
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.6" W x 8.4" (0.95 lbs) 317 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Asian
- Ethnic Orientation - Asian
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Locality - New York, N.Y.
- Geographic Orientation - New York
- Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region - Northeast U.S.