Fault Lines
- 376bladzijden
- 14 uur lezen
In this evocative memoir, now a foundational text in postcolonial studies, an acclaimed Indian poet explores writing, memory, and place in a post-9/11 world.
Meena Alexander Boeken
17 februari 1951 – 21 november 2018
Meena Alexander was een internationaal geprezen dichteres, wetenschapper en schrijfster wier werk culturele grenzen overschreed. Haar schrijven, gevormd door ervaringen in India, Soedan en New York, duikt in thema's als identiteit, migratie en interculturele expressie. Alexander verweefde meesterlijk persoonlijke ervaringen met diepgaand literair inzicht, waardoor een onderscheidende stem ontstond die wereldwijd resoneerde bij lezers. Haar literaire nalatenschap leeft voort in haar dichtbundels, literaire memoires en essays, die tot nadenken stemmen en een frisse kijk bieden op de complexiteit van het menselijk bestaan.
Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series: Indian Love Poems
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- 9 uur lezen
According to the Kama Sutra, the erotic handbook written two thousand years ago, when the wheel of ecstasy is in motion “there is no textbook at all, and no order.” Indian Love Poems is a unique gathering of poems from across more than two and a half millennia that attempts to catalog the disordered ecstasies of love, ranging from the Kama Sutra and earlier works up to present-day India and the poets of the Indian diaspora.Indian Love Poems features works from the classical languages of Sanskrit and Tamil and such later languages as Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam, Bengali, and English. Emerging from many Indian cultures and eras, the poems collected here reflect a variety of erotic and spiritual passions, and celebrate the powerful role of desire–both male and female–in the intricate dance of existence. From the twelfth-century female poet Mahadeviyakka to the twentieth-century Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore to such contemporary poets as Kamala Das and Vikram Seth, this glittering tapestry of lyric voices beautifully and sensually evokes the transfiguring force of love.
Rückkehr nach Hyderabad - bk899; Droemer Knaur; Meena Alexander; pocket_book; 1993
