Navigating Meena Alexander’s Diasporic Blue Poetics: A Study of Selected Poems | ||
| مجلة کلية الآداب جامعة الفيوم | ||
| Article 27, Volume 16, Issue 2, July 2024, Pages 1001-1034 PDF (671.55 K) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jfafu.2024.307406.2085 | ||
| Author | ||
| ايناس ابو الفتوح* | ||
| جامعة دمياط كلية الاداب قسم اللغة الانجليزية | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Meena Alexander is a postcolonial poet from the Indian diaspora. Having experienced different migratory journeys from a very tender age, she composes verses centered on the waterscape. Moreover, numerous poems concentrate on her childhood days. These poems demonstrate how an early departure from her country affects her adult life which witnesses further dislocations and relocations. The oceans and seas crossed in her movements from one country to another are vital motifs. Furthermore, she shows a preoccupation with other water-related entities like ships, canoes, fish, fountains, waves, port cities, and others. Therefore, the focus of the current study is analyzing the literal, metaphorical, and symbolic dimensions of the waterscape in Alexander’s poetics. In addition, its role in shaping the poet’s personality during her childhood and adulthood in the diaspora is underlined. Identity loss, underestimation, and rootlessness were the price she paid when she left India. Thus, the development of her fragmentation, loneliness, and traumatizing memories due to coloniality is outlined in six blue poems published in four collections. The study contributes to the academic appreciation of the poet’s oeuvre by reading through these unanalyzed poems. Likewise, it brings her interest in the waterscape to the spotlight since it drew no critic’s attention. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Meena Alexander; Indian diaspora; blue poetics; traumatizing memories; coloniality | ||
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