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Fiction has been a major tool to articulate the personal trauma and social crisis as well as communal unrest for centuries. The journey of a homebound pilgrim aditi jana vidyasagar university, west bengal, india abstract meena alexander is an emerging indianenglish poet. The present paper reflects the internal turmoil of a displaced and dislocated woman in meena alexander s first novel nampally road. Furthermore, her novel nampally road 1991 was named the editors choice in the. The short, semiautobiographical first novel nampally road by meena alexander. He even drew a map of nampally road and gave it to mira. Meena alexander, indian poet and teacher whose works reflect her multicultural life in india, sudan, and the united states. Nampally road meena alexander 9780916515829 books download as pdf. The story opens with sandhya rosenblum sitting in central park, culturally adrift. Her novella nampally road is a look at the fight for independence in india following the partition of pakistan.
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Reflections on postcolonial experience, by meena alexander. Meena alexander has 36 books on goodreads with 3173 ratings. Meena alexander simple english wikipedia, the free. For example, the heroine in her first novel nampally. Although christened mary elizabeth, she has been called meena since birth.
See meena alexander speaking on her book nampally road. At the age of fifteen, she officially changed her name to meena. The quest for identity as a pattern of postcolonial voices. Meena alexander is a poet, novelist, scholar, and memoirist whose writing has been published in translation in numerous languages. Stephanie han also affirms that the main concern of the literary works of alexander is the physical and emotional effects of. She was distinguished professor of english at hunter college and at the cuny graduate center in the phd program in english she published two novels, nampally road 1991which was a village voice literary supplement editors choiceand manhattan music 1997, and two academic studies, the. Notes on landmarks and nampally road prepared by prof. In its profound and polyglot sense of world citizenship gained through the indelible experience of exile, meena alexander has written what isnot at all paradoxicallya book thats. Like many of meena alexanders poems, the storm is largely about. Sleepless in manhattan available for download and read online in other formats.
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