Crossing Black Waters - Brossura

Kashyap, Athena

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1936205599 ISBN 13: 9781936205592

Casa editrice: Stephen F Austin Univ Pr, 2012

Riassunto

Crossing Black Waters is an exploration of borders through one family's personal odyssey from the violent upheaval of the Partition of India in 1947 to emigrating to the U.S. The book delves into the psychological impact of leaving behind a past that keeps "pulsating behind swinging shutters of thought" to recreate lives and identities anew, and searches for "home"--a "lonely room in the [my] mind," a "heartache" at the "end of rainbows," or else a fictitious "country," built around "hubs" of friendships forged over "glasses of wine and tandoori chicken." A key phrase is "I am knot"--the "not" of losing one's identity and family coupled with the idea that one cannot truly be separate and is "knotted" with the past and kin for life.

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L'autore:

ATHENA KASHYAP'S poetry has appeared in  Exquisite Corpse, Quiddity, Sanskriti, The Fourth River among other journals, and has also been widely anthologized in the U.S. and U.K. She has a MFA and MA from San Francisco State University and University of California at Davis, and is an Adjunct Professor of English at City College of San Francisco. She currently resides in Bangalore, India.

  

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Book by Kashyap Athena

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• Editore: Stephen F Austin Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1936205599
• ISBN 13: 9781936205592
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 91