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The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience

Contents Overture Another Voice

Piecmeal Shelters

Piecemeal Shelters

Art of Pariahs

Language and Shame

Alphabets of Flesh

Passion

Skin Song

Whose House is This?

House of a thousand Doors

Hotel Alexandria

Sidi Syed's Architecture

Tangled Roots

Poem by the Wellside

Bobating

Her Garden

Erupting Words

Aunt Chinna

Coda from Night-Scene

Translating Violence

Bordering Ourselves

Her Mother's Words

Ashtamudi Lake

Translating Violence

Desert Rose

Estrangement Becomes the Mark of the Eagle

Accidental Markings

Great Brown River

The Storm: A Poem in Five Parts

Making Up Memory

That Other Body

'A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse...'

New World Aria

No Nation Woman

White Horseman Blues

Migrant Music

A Durable Past

Performing the Word

For Safdar Hashmi Beaten to death Just Outside Delhi

Moloyashree

Making Up Memory

Brief Chronicle by Candlelight

San Andreas Fault

The Shock of Arrival

Paper Filled with Light

Skins with Fire Inside: Indian Women Writers

Fracturing the Iconic Feminine

In Search of Sarojini Naidu

Coda

Theater of Sense

Aftermath: Title Search

Well Jumped Women

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 224
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780896085459
  • Genres
  • poetry
  • Release date
  • 1999