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The shock of arrival : reflections on postcolonial experience / by Meena Alexander.
LIBRA - Special E184.E2 A44 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alexander, Meena, 1951-2018.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- East Indian Americans--Ethnic identity.
- East Indian Americans.
- East Indian Americans--Language.
- Women immigrants--United States.
- Women immigrants.
- Imperialism--Psychological aspects.
- Imperialism.
- United States--Ethnic relations.
- United States.
- Ethnic relations.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Alexander, Meena, 1951- (autograph) (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- vii, 223 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, MA : South End Press, [1996]
- Summary:
- 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. Her project: "to make space for what was crossed out in the decorum of femininity, in the high places of classical hierarchy, in the racism of a canonical knowledge".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-211) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy inscribed "[For Walter] [...] with love Meena [...] 1996" on title page.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has bookseller's note indicating inscription is to Walter Kendrick.
- ISBN:
- 0896085465
- 0896085457
- 0896085260
- 0896085252
- OCLC:
- 34564806
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