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Navigating Meena Alexander’s Diasporic Blue Poetics: A Study of Selected Poems

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Last updated: 24 Dec 2024

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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.

DOI

10.21608/jfafu.2024.307406.2085

Keywords

Meena Alexander, Indian diaspora, blue poetics, traumatizing memories, coloniality

Authors

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ايناس

Last Name

ابو الفتوح

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جامعة دمياط كلية الاداب قسم اللغة الانجليزية

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enassami@du.edu.eg

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0000-0003-1521-3976

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16

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2

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47751

Issue Date

2024-07-01

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2024-07-26

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2024-07-01

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1,001

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1,034

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2357-0709

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2735-3281

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970

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مجلة کلية الآداب جامعة الفيوم

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https://jfafu.journals.ekb.eg/

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Navigating Meena Alexander’s Diasporic Blue Poetics: A Study of Selected Poems

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24 Dec 2024