Fault Lines Anniversary Edition Contributor(s): Alexander, Meena (Author), Wa Thiong'o, Ngugi (Foreword by) |
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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. |