Search for self-identity in Meena Alexander’s Nampally Road P.Kavitha M.Phil.ScholarResearchDepartmentEnglishSadakathullah AppaCollege Tirunelveli Abstract: Meena Alexander, an internationally acclaimed poet, scholar, and writer also with kaleidoscopic quqlities. She was Born in Allahabad and raised in India and Sudan. She belongs to a Syrian Christian Family, she accompanied her parents when she was five to Khartoum, Sudan, later she attended the university of Khartoum where she studied English and French Literature. Then she moved to England for her doctoral studies in Nottingham. She returned to Hyderabad and started to teach English at Sona Nivas college. Meena Alexander tracesher life from childhood in India through youth in England . As a result, Alexander struggles to find her identity, despite a past full of moves and changes. This paper discusses the novel Nampally Road and how Alexander portrays the pain of losing self- identity, dislocation, immigration. Keywords: feminism, ...
http://professorgarretraja.blogspot.com/2018/03/land-womens-breath-and-speech-summary.html?m=1 Professor Garret Land : Women’s Breath and Speech - Summary March 30, 2018 Title Significance – Land : Women’s Breath and Speech The title Land: Women’s Breath and Speech is translated from Tamil Title “Nilam: Penkalin Moochum, Peachum”. The title delineates the crux of the essay. Throughout the essay P.Sivakami talks about the term “Land”. She Interrogates “Can we measure a colossal force by a narrow term ‘Land?” As the main title suggests she talks primarily about the term “Land”. She associates the term with Thinai which includes not only the land but also the living organisms and plants. She negotiates the culture of naming the land based on the plants growing there. Then she traces the history of naming the land and proclaims it was named after the language is spoken by a man and his linage. Term and Naming of Lands After discussing the term and naming of land, she surveys how man posse...
On The Pleasures of No Longer Being Very Young - G.K. Chesterton G.K. Chesterton’s essay, “On the Pleasures of No Longer Being Very Young” analyses the advantage of old age. With the help of humour, paradox and frequent allusions, getting old is a universal experience. This experience can tell us the relevance of traditions in the ever changing modern world. This essay was written after the great economic depression in the 1930s when the new industrial economies have completely collapsed and modern man had learnt a lesson of being too proud of his knowledge. People look at the advantages of old age in a sentiment way. All old men are supposed to be happy and kind like Santa Clause and wise like the classical Greek figure, Nestor. Young men...
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