Manhattan Music Miscellaneous Book Report/Review
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Meena Alexander, through the voice of her characters, critiques normative categories of race and gender as well as empowers local traditions and cultures of the home country after the British colonization to India. Her main characters are women who reconcile the ambivalence of immigration through the recognition that it is their very ethnicity, gender, and exile that constitute their identities, "She was racing into America from the dark vessel of her past and she could hear it singing in her, ready to break free, the load of her womanhood, of the accumulated life, breaking free into an inconceivable sweetness.And she, who had never trusted words very much, knew she would live out her life i