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Fault Lines: A Memoir (2nd Edition) (The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series)
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About Fault Lines: A Memoir
Product 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, 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. Review "Evocative and moving." Publishers Weekly "Meena Alexander will be a part of the history of global culture. She knows how it looks, feels, tastes, and sounds; how it creates and splits identity. Ten years ago, she published an extraordinary memoir, Fault Lines. Now, with her habitual courage and subtlety and eloquence, she has interlaced the memoir's words with new experiences, perceptions, pain, and visions. Fault Lines is faultless." Catharine R. Stimpson, University Professor and Dean of the Graduate School, New York University "This new edition of Fault Lines shows us a poet intent on seeing herself straight. The narrative digs deeper into childhood and reexamines adulthood more painfully than its predecessor, but image." Jill Ker Conway, author of True North "Meena Alexander's acute poetic sensibility makes this memoir a joy to read. At the same time, the writing is grounded enough to evoke the earthier loam of violence and reality." Bapsi Sidhwa, author of Cracking India "Evocative and moving." ― Publishers Weekly "Meena Alexander will be a part of the history of global culture. She knows how it looks, feels, tastes, and sounds; how it creates and splits identity. Ten years ago, she published an extraordinary memoir, Fault Lines. Now, with her habitual courage and subtlety and eloquence, she has interlaced the memoir's words with new experiences, perceptions, pain, and visions. Fault Lines is faultless." ― Catharine R. Stimpson, University Professor and Dean of the Graduate School, New York University "This new edition of Fault Lines shows us a poet intent on seeing herself straight. The narrative digs deeper into childhood and reexamines adulthood more painfully than its predecessor, but image." ― Jill Ker Conway, author of True North "Meena Alexander's acute poetic sensibility makes this memoir a joy to read. At the same time, the writing is grounded enough to evoke the earthier loam of violence and reality." ― Bapsi Sidhwa, author of Cracking India 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).
