Nampally Road Summary
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, ...
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