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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453152103321

Autore

Khanna Vandana <1972->

Titolo

Train to Agra [[electronic resource] /] / Vandana Khanna

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, : Crab Orchard Review, : Southern Illinois University Press, c2001

ISBN

0-8093-9028-0

1-299-05085-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (70 p.)

Collana

Crab Orchard award series in poetry : first book award

Disciplina

811/.54

Soggetti

East Indian Americans

Electronic books.

India Poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Train to Agra; One; Spell; Blackwater Fever; Thread; Eyes; Dun; Stardust; On the Edge of Delhi; The India of Postcards; Two; Against Vallejo; Two Women; The Nook; Against Tu Fu; Hence, Monsoon; Domes; Alignment; The Palm Reader; Twentieth-Century Sita; Aurora; Denali; 4th Street Cemetery; Three; Screens; Blue Madonna; Lost; Plums; Elephant God; The Taming; Bowl; Bread; A Miracle in Blue Jeans; Hunger; When My Father Didn't Work; Hair; Dot Head; Echo; Evening Prayer; Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Calling upon two cultures, Vandana Khanna's Train to Agra meditates on the effects of displacement and expatriation on the construction of a young Indian American woman's identity. The physical journeys undertaken by the speaker reflect her inner journey from immigrant child to Indian American woman, struggling to find her place between India and America, Krishna and Jesus, samosas and hamburgers. The speaker constantly tries to recapture visions, smells, and sounds of her childhood and her travels, but cannot do so without imagination. Her memory fails her, so through meta