MEENA ALEXANDER’S SEARCH FOR SELF IN ‘FAULT LINES’
Keywords:
Race, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism, EthnocentrismAbstract
This study is a brief inquiry into the search for self who lived at multiculturalatmosphere, that of the Hyderabad she was born into and the colonial cultures of British
India, Sudan, Europe, and the United States. Due to this, a new terrain of self-recognition
based on her own multiple border-crossing experiences can be observed by her
autobiographical Fault Lines: A Memoir. She notes that the loss of individual selves with any
inclination or desires that are not in agreement with the prevailing social pattern as a result of
which she is forced to manipulate in her social demands. She is against the factor of
ethnocentrism which makes one intolerant of other culture, the factor of superiority to other.
All these elements, in her Fault Lines: A Memoir, are on the ground of analysis and the study
will be on the ground of sincerity and originality
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Fault Lines (1993/new expanded edition 2003)
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Interview with The Writer Magazine (2009)
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Meena Alexander" by Leah Souffrant (2009)
Interview with Black Renaissance Magazine (2010)
BBC Radio: "The Poet's Indian, The Words are English" (2010)
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culture-segregation
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