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Bezig met laden... Fault lines: a memoir (1993)door Meena Alexander
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"FAULT LINES follows the life of poet and scholar Meena Alexander, who was born into a privileged childhood in India and raised in the Sudan before moving to England and then to New York City, where she reflects on her existence as a South Asian woman after 9/11. Writing across topics such as poetry, language, family, culture, and memory, this new edition of the memoir features a commemorative afterword by Gaiutra Bahadur in the wake of Meena Alexander's passing in 2018"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The second part, published in 2003, is basically a series of shocks. She recounts September 11 and its aftermath (she was teaching at the CUNY Graduate Center on 5th Avenue in NYC at the time) and then describes her discovery, late in life, that her adored grandfather sexually abused her as a child. It's hard to fathom the surfacing of this repressed memory, mainly because in the first part, the grandfather is so adored; such a beloved part of her childhood. It's a mystery, upsetting to ponder.
Alexander died in November 2018, aged 67. A good poet, gone from us. ( )