Fault Lines
- 376pages
- 14 heures de lecture
In this evocative memoir, now a foundational text in postcolonial studies, an acclaimed Indian poet explores writing, memory, and place in a post-9/11 world.
Meena Alexander était une poétesse, une universitaire et une écrivaine de renommée internationale dont l'œuvre a franchi les frontières culturelles. Son écriture, façonnée par ses expériences en Inde, au Soudan et à New York, explore les thèmes de l'identité, de la migration et de l'expression interculturelle. Alexander a tissé avec maestria l'expérience personnelle avec une profonde perspicacité littéraire, forgeant une voix distincte qui a résonné à l'échelle mondiale auprès des lecteurs. Son héritage littéraire perdure à travers ses recueils de poésie, ses mémoires littéraires et ses essais, qui invitent à la réflexion et offrent une perspective nouvelle sur les complexités de l'existence humaine.




In this evocative memoir, now a foundational text in postcolonial studies, an acclaimed Indian poet explores writing, memory, and place in a post-9/11 world.
According to the Kama Sutra, the erotic handbook written two thousand years ago, when the wheel of ecstasy is in motion “there is no textbook at all, and no order.” Indian Love Poems is a unique gathering of poems from across more than two and a half millennia that attempts to catalog the disordered ecstasies of love, ranging from the Kama Sutra and earlier works up to present-day India and the poets of the Indian diaspora.Indian Love Poems features works from the classical languages of Sanskrit and Tamil and such later languages as Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam, Bengali, and English. Emerging from many Indian cultures and eras, the poems collected here reflect a variety of erotic and spiritual passions, and celebrate the powerful role of desire–both male and female–in the intricate dance of existence. From the twelfth-century female poet Mahadeviyakka to the twentieth-century Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore to such contemporary poets as Kamala Das and Vikram Seth, this glittering tapestry of lyric voices beautifully and sensually evokes the transfiguring force of love.
Rückkehr nach Hyderabad - bk899; Droemer Knaur; Meena Alexander; pocket_book; 1993