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Fault Lines Anniversary edition
Author(s): Meena Alexander (Author), Ngugi Wa Thiong'o (Preface)
- Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
- Publication Date: 1 Oct. 2003
- Edition: Anniversary edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 317 pages
- ISBN-10: 1558614540
- ISBN-13: 9781558614543
Book Description
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 Anniversary edition, 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 readersboth familiar and newAlexander 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.
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About the Author
An award-winning poet and scholar, Meena Alexander teaches in the PhD program in English at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and the MFA program at Hunter College. She was born in India and raised there as well as in Sudan. Earning a BA in English and French from Khartoum University and a PhD in English studies from Nottingham University, Alexander has concentrated much of her work on migration, its impact on subjectivity, and the violence that often compels people to cross borders. She is the editor of Indian Love Poems and the author of The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience, Stone Roots, House of a Thousand Doors, River and Bridge, and Illiterate Heart (winner of the PEN Open Book Award).
An award-winning poet and scholar,
Meena Alexander teaches in the PhD program in English at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and the MFA program at Hunter College. She was born in India and raised there as well as in Sudan. Earning a BA in English and French from Khartoum University and a PhD in English studies from Nottingham University, Alexander has concentrated much of her work on migration, its impact on subjectivity, and the violence that often compels people to cross borders. She is the editor of Indian Love Poems and the author of The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience, Stone Roots, House of a Thousand Doors, River and Bridge, and Illiterate Heart (winner of the PEN Open Book Award).
