Open AccessDIASPORA AND IDENTITY IN THE SELECTED POEMS OF MEENA ALEXANDER
Author(s) -
Pooja Kushwaha
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of engineering applied science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2455-2143
DOI - 10.33564/ijeast.2020.v05i05.017
Subject(s) - diaspora , poetry , identity (music) , art , literature , sociology , gender studies , aesthetics
On the literary map of Indian women writings, Meena Alexander appears to be leading woman poetess. The question of identity is the most controversial issue in postcolonial time and literature and it can be regarded the most important because its crisis exists in all postcolonial communities. She negotiates with the issue of ‘Diaspora’ and ‘Identity’ in almost all her writings. Meena Alexander is always in an experiment on the issues of ‘Diaspora’ and ‘Identity’ in her creative oeuvre. This paper endeavors to explore her postcolonial journey and her views of making a home, a living one and a literary one, and an individual identity of her own through her literary and poetic creations. KeywordsDiaspora, identity.