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Alexander's work:
Fault Lines
Leaving places and returning to them in memory is the theme of Alexander's autobiography and memoir
Fault Line
s which was published in 1993. Fault Lines is the term used by geologists to describe cracks in the earth - Alexander uses it to visualise the uprooting she has faced all her life:
"
Right from when I was very young and lived in Allahabad I remember seeing cracks in the earth which were left there in the aftermath of a very little earthquake, and I had to jump over them. And I've always felt that because of all the movement and these migrations I don't have a simple shining geography and how can you be a writer if you just don't have one loved place? And so I thought, well, I'm really a writer of faults, someone whose life has been broken up into many pieces and that's all right- that's also a life. So I guess that's why I called it Fault Lines - to convey the broken up pieces of my geography.
"
Meena Alexander
a woman cracked by multiple migrations
publication details
The Bird's Bright Ring
(
poems
) (1976),
Calcutta: Writer's Workshop
Fault Lines: A Memoir
(1993),
The Feminist Press
Manhattan Music
(1997),
Mercury House
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