...Lavina Shankar LAVINA SHANKAR Re-VisioningMemoirsOldand New A ConversatiownithMeenaAlexande1 r Meena Alexander is a poet, novelist, scholar, and memoirist whose writing has been published in translation in numerous languages. Born in Allahabad, India in 1951, she spent her childhood traveling...

...Meena Alexander Copyright © 2008 by Smith College 2008 MEENA ALEXANDER ElegyforMy Father Father, when you died, your bones were brittle, fit to burn. They stretched you on a teakwood bench. Light etched your cheekbones, stoked your eyes, your thumbs were pale as love-apple fruit. The sun when...

...Meena Alexander MEENA ALEXANDER TheGarden I. A space without historyAt the rim of the pond Grandmother loosens her sari Steps into water Her skinglistens, utterly naked. No one remembers this. Lotus petals flicker Float to the axle-tree Tree of Heaven They call it in the family. Byits roots...

...Meena Alexander Copyright © 2000 by Wesleyan University Press 2000 MEMOIRS 'TheShockof Sensation' On Reading TheWavesas a Girl in India, and as a Woman in America MEENA ALEXANDER Wehavenoceremonieos,nlyprivatedirBeasndno conclusionos,nlyviolentsensationse,achseparate1. -VirBiniaWoolf...

... ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS MEENA ALEXANDER was born in India, raised there and in Sudan. At eighteen, she went to study in England. Her first poems were published when she was a teenager in Sudan, in Arabic translation. Currently, she lives and works in New YorkCity where she is Distinguished...

... the fundamentalist agenda and symbolizes an inclusive, secular India. In her award-winning memoir FaultLines(1993), Meena Alexander, who was born in Allahabad, India, educated in England, and subsequently resided in the U.S., described her emotional search to feel at home in the world. A decade later, Alexander...

...(1997). Her work has been translated into several languages, including Malayalam, Italian, German, Spanish, and Swedish. She is Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Meena Alexander has a special interest in questions of migration...

... could always hear it in her voice. Other times, she would sing-song a message into my answering machine: "We're going to get grits and coffee-I'll be there in 20 minutes. Are you there, Meena?" I don't like her-that's all that Alan ever had to say. Most nights he works on his dissertation and drinks...

... the political? How might reflection and narration serve to reconfigure consciousness? How might political engagement transform subjectivity and provoke a confrontation with hegemonic languages? Here, poet and novelist Meena Alexander narrates her formation as a writer to include an unacknowledged debt...

... to repay the care and protection given them by their parents in raising them" strongly contributes to the entrance of young women into sex work (1998, 12). Meena Poudel, of Women Acting Together for Change (WATCH) in Nepal, identifies several factors that facilitate the trafficking of women from Nepal...

... Acharya,Meena. 1981.TheMaithiliWomenofSirsia.VolumeII: Part 1, The Status ofWomen in Nepal (Centre for Economic Development and Administration). United States of America (copyright). Acharya,Meena and LynnBennett. 1981.TheRuralWomenofNepal:AnA9gregate AnalysisandSummaryofEightVillageStudiesK. athmandu...

..., diasporic cultural production. South Asian American literature, much of it authored by women-such as Bharati Mukherjee, Chitra Divakaruni, and Meena Alexander-exploded onto the literary scene after immigration restrictions based on "national origin" quotas were lifted in 1965. Most of this literature, which...