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The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience
The Shock of Arrival Reflections on Postcolonial Experience Author:Meena Alexander ContentsOverture Another VoicePiecmeal SheltersPiecemeal Shelters — Art of Pariahs — Language and Shame — Alphabets of Flesh — Passion — Skin Song — Whose House is This? — House of a thousand Doors — Hotel Alexandria — Sidi Syed's Architecture — Tangled Roots — Poem by the Wellside — Bobating — Her Garden — Erupting Words — Aunt Chinna — Co... more »da from Night-SceneTranslating ViolenceBordering Ourselves
Her Mother's Words
Ashtamudi Lake
Translating Violence
Desert Rose
Estrangement Becomes the Mark of the Eagle
Accidental Markings
Great Brown River
The Storm: A Poem in Five PartsMaking Up MemoryThat Other Body
'A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse...'
New World Aria
No Nation Woman
White Horseman Blues
Migrant Music
A Durable Past
Performing the Word
For Safdar Hashmi Beaten to death Just Outside Delhi
Moloyashree
Making Up Memory
Brief Chronicle by Candlelight
San Andreas Fault
The Shock of Arrival
Paper Filled with Light
Skins with Fire Inside: Indian Women WritersFracturing the Iconic Feminine