Train to Agra [electronic resource] / Vandana Khanna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khanna, Vandana, 1972-

Series:

Crab Orchard award series in poetry.

Crab Orchard award series in poetry : first book award

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East Indian Americans--Poetry.

East Indian Americans.

India--Poetry.

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (70 p.)

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Calling upon two cultures, Vandana Khanna's Train to Agra meditates on the effects of displacement and expatriation on the construction of a young Indian American woman's identity. The physical journeys undertaken by the speaker reflect her inner journey from immigrant child to Indian American woman, struggling to find her place between India and America, Krishna and Jesus, samosas and hamburgers. The speaker constantly tries to recapture visions, smells, and sounds of her childhood and her travels, but cannot do so without imagination. Her memory fails her, so through meta

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Train to Agra; One; Spell; Blackwater Fever; Thread; Eyes; Dun; Stardust; On the Edge of Delhi; The India of Postcards; Two; Against Vallejo; Two Women; The Nook; Against Tu Fu; Hence, Monsoon; Domes; Alignment; The Palm Reader; Twentieth-Century Sita; Aurora; Denali; 4th Street Cemetery; Three; Screens; Blue Madonna; Lost; Plums; Elephant God; The Taming; Bowl; Bread; A Miracle in Blue Jeans; Hunger; When My Father Didn't Work; Hair; Dot Head; Echo; Evening Prayer; Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-8093-9028-0

1-299-05085-9

OCLC:

856870443