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Alexander, Meena
Meena Alexander 1951–
Indian poet, novelist, critic, and autobiographer.
The following entry presents criticism of Alexander's career through 1998.
Alexander is an Indian writer whose poetry and fiction reflect her mulicultural life experiences among diverse ethnic and religious communities on four continents. Generally concerned with the roles of place, memory, and language in identity formation, Alexander's works examine the disparate elements of her heritage and her cultural displacement, concentrating particularly on her status as an educated woman of the South Asian diaspora living and writing in the West. Alexander's search for psychic wholeness through language—a prevalent theme of her poetry—also articulates the concerns facing many postcolonial writers silenced by the dominant literary traditions of the imperial past. Critical discussion of her writings often centers on her contributions to Anglophone postcolonial literature, but scholars also have responded to her feminist perspective on literary and cultural issues. Alexander has remarked: "While I do not think I consciously write as a woman, I have little doubt that some of my deepest emotions and insights spring from having been born into a female body, learning to grow up as a woman in both a traditional Indian culture—South Indian, Syrian Christian, Malayalam speaking—and as part of the complex, shifting South Asian diaspora."
Biographical Information
The daughter of a diplomat, Alexander was born into a socially prominent, Syrian Christian family in Allahabad, India, but was raised in the Sudan, where she attended high school and graduated from the University of Khartoum with a bachelor of arts degree in 1969. She pursued graduate studies at the University of Nottingham in England, writing her dissertation on Romantic English literature which later evolved into The Poetic Self (1979). After earning a doctorate degree in 1973, Alexander returned to India and taught at several universities until 1979, when she accepted a visiting fellowship at the Sorbonne in Paris. During her return to India, she also published her first collections of poetry: The Bird's Bright Ring (1976), I Root My Name (1977), and Without Place (1978). Late in 1979 Alexander emigrated to the United States and settled in the New York City area, assuming an associate professorship at Fordham University. While acclimating to American life, Alexander immersed herself in writing. By the late 1980s she not only had contributed numerous scholarly articles to literary journals and feminist anthologies, but she also published the poetry collections House of a Thousand Doors (1988), The Storm (1989), and Night-Scene, the Garden (1989) as well as the critical study Women in Romanticism (1989). A lecturer in the writing program at Columbia University since 1990 and a professor of women's studies at City University of New York since 1992, Alexander produced more prose than poetry during the 1990s, writing two novels, Nampally Road (1991) and Manhattan Music (1997); an autobiography, Fault Lines (1993); another volume of criticism, The Shock of Arrival (1996); and a single poetry book, River and Bridge (1995).
Major Works
Marked by processes of mediation between and meditation on different literary and cultural traditions, Alexander's imagistic and somewhat romantic poetry attempts to create a sense of identity for the poet and represents a type of psychoanalysis through which different aspects of her personality approach some sort of order. Alexander's early poetry depends on, as often as it reveals, the interstices of memory, history, and ontology; for example, The Bird's Bright Ring juxtaposes images of blood, salt, and native flora and fauna with fragmented commentary on the sociopolitical effects of British rule in India. Although Alexander's verse generally favors Indian themes and imagery, feminist issues comprise the majority of her work, including her scholarly studies, and female narrators and characters dominate both her poetry and fiction. I Root My Name, for instance, intimates the painful experiences of women, while "A Mirror's Grace," a poem appearing in Without Place, recounts Cleopatra's struggle to resist slipping into the margins of patriarchal linguistics. House of a Thousand Doors centers on memories and dreams of Alexander's grandmother, whom the poet has described as "a power permitting me to speak in an alien landscape." The Storm contemplates the feminist ideal of recreating and rewriting a "pure" female self-identity from fragmentary matrilineal memories. In Night-Scene, the Garden, mothers, grandmothers, aunts, and sisters figure prominently in the narrator's memory, which symbolizes a kind of "mother tongue" that encourages the poet to create a "new" self. The poetry of River and Bridge explores similar personal and feminist themes, focusing primarily on coping with cultural displacement, but other poems address myriad forms of violence and protest bondage of all sorts, ranging from racial and sexual to economic and religious. Like her poetry, Alexander's fiction carries autobiographical overtones. Centered on literature's relation to life and women's role as healer of communal ills, Nampally Road relates the story of a woman writer who returns to her native India following her college education abroad. She plans to create literary order out of India's tumultuous past by writing a book about it, but instead she becomes involved in the resurgent political violence that surrounds her and reluctantly learns that she can do little to stop the suffering. Set in contemporary New York, Manhattan Music traces a female immigrant's gradual recovery of her self-identity through a series of interracial, multicultural relationships and intellectual associations.
Critical Reception
Critics often have recognized Alexander's poetry for articulating some of the linguistic dilemmas confronting native writers of formerly British-administered colonies, noting that her imagery and formal structures, though reminiscent of European Romanticism and Modernism, are inflected by complex Indian rhythms, dense syntax, and South-Asian mythology. Consequently, Alexander has engaged the attention of postcolonial literary scholars. Ben Downing has characterized her poetic work thus: "Attracted to both the 'hierarchical unity' of Indian tradition and a modern, Western poetics of rupture, Alexander is faced with the difficult necessity of mediating between them." Alexander's fiction also has received a similar critical response, evinced by John Oliver Perry, who has called Nampally Road a "major contribution to South Asian-American literature far exceeding, say, Bharati Mukherjee's novels in cultural richness, psychological complexity, and sociopolitical—not to mention feminist—sophistication." Shilpa Davé, likewise comparing the significance of Alexander's fiction to that of Mukherjee's, concluded that Nampally Road represents more than "a narrative of minority victimage, and instead offers a reasonable strategy to incorporate the identity with the past by questioning the relationship between history and our cultural inheritance." Critics also have read Alexander's impulse to question her identity for signs of emergent feminism, responding particularly to her experiences as a woman in both an occidental and oriental context. "Alexander treats her writing as a search for a homeland, which is less physical than psychological, in particular her poetry, as a means of making sense of her multiple cultural, geographical and psychological positionalities," according to Helen Grice, adding that "it is [Alexander's] very ethnicity, gender, and exilic status that make her the person she is, and that it is partly the fault lines that exist between these identities that define her."
Principal Works
The Bird's Bright Ring (poetry) 1976
I Root My Name (poetry) 1977
Without Place (poetry) 1978
The Poetic Self: Towards a Phenomenology of Romanticism (criticism) 1979
Stone Roots (poetry) 1980
House of a Thousand Doors (poetry) 1988
Night-Scene, the Garden (poetry) 1989
The Storm: A Poem in Five Parts (poetry) 1989
Women in Romanticism: Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley (criticism) 1989
Nampally Road (novel) 1991
Fault Lines (autobiography) 1993
River and Bridge (poetry) 1995
The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience (criticism) 1996
Manhattan Music (novel) 1997
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SOURCE: "Exiled by a Woman's Body: Substantial Phenomena in Meena Alexander's Poetry," in Journal of South Asian Literature, Vol. 21, No. 1, Winter-Spring, 1986, pp. 125-32.
[In the following essay, Perry examines various manifestations of "exile" in Alexander's poetry, especially in relation to gender, language, and politics.]
[If the exile's] body cannot appropriate its given landscape,… the substantial body dwindles into phantasm…. Language … degenerates into a dead script when the bodily power of a people no longer instills it with particularity, no longer appropriates it in the expression of a emergent selfhood…. In the battle between the body and the spirit the outworn script of English as we find it here must be made to open its maw and swallow, swallow huge chaosses, the chaosses of uninterpreted actuality.
—Meena Alexander, "Exiled by a Dead Script!" (1977)
Within the developing group of South Asian women struggling with the paradoxes of writing poetry in English, Meena Alexander rises as a solid phenomenon, neither fleeting shade nor faint aroma, but pungent, sure, fully extended in time and space and motion. At age thirty-five, in the middle of the journey of her life, she has, unlike most other poets in India, already produced a substantial amount of poetry: five books in nine years, the last by far the...
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SOURCE: A review of House of a Thousand Doors, in World Literature Today, Vol. 63, No. 1, Winter, 1989, p. 163.
[In the following review, Perry sketches the thematic concerns and associated characters of House of a Thousand Doors.]
In a 1986 essay on Meena Alexander for the Journal of South Asian Literature, "Exiled by a Woman's Body," I praised the then-forthcoming volume House of a Thousand Doors and characterized the author as a substantially developed South Asian immigrant writer. Unhappily in the interim, despite publication of many of the collection's poems and brief poetic prose pieces in over a dozen different, often internationally known journals, the volume has not been widely available to inspire—as could be expected—other Indian women writers. They will find here a richly imaged, sensuously imagined voice that extends the range of Indian English poetry far beyond the ironic parameters of the Bombay poets headed by Nissim Ezekiel. Only Kamala Das, a 1986 Sahitya Akademi Award winner, offers another, rather older, more rebellious, somewhat confessional, but paradoxically restrained feminist model, one that the younger Alexander has recently come to admire. For one thing, they share the matrilineal heritage of Travancore in Kerala, and Das's mother, the Malayalam poet Balamani-amma, was a close friend of Alexander's Syrian Christian grandmother, a repeated inspirational...
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SOURCE: A review of The Storm, in Village Voice Literary Supplement, No. 84, April, 1990, p. 9.
[In the following review, Downing outlines the structure of The Storm, centering on the thematic significance of ritual.]
In her introduction, Meena Alexander compares The Storm to "the stiff palmyra fans grandmother had hung to the wall" during Alexander's early childhood in Kerala, South India. The autobiographical poem, by invoking "the poise of a ritualised order," serves as an artifact that rescues the ancestral memory of its creator from oblivion. Elaborating the analogy, Alexander cautions that such recoveries can only be momentary, incomplete: "The severe formal folds in the fan meant that at any one point you only saw several bits of the surface, and those too, only for an instant as any one part fell into its fragmentary concatenation." Alexander's skepticism is not unwarranted given the uprootedness of her youth, with its numerous exiles in the West. Attracted to both the "hierarchical unity" of Indian tradition and a modern, Western poetics of rupture, Alexander is faced with the difficult necessity of mediating between them. It seems, therefore, almost inevitable that she would consider a stroboscopic "bits-and-pieces narrative" to be "the only sort my life can fall into."
Happily, Alexander's life slips into some pretty attractive narrative containers. This...
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SOURCE: A review of Nampally Road, in World Literature Today, Vol. 65, No. 2, Spring, 1991, pp. 364-65.
[In the following review, Perry considers the narrative implications of the feminist sociopolitical perspective of Nampally Road.]
Based, naturally, on her own experience, Nampally Road, the first novel by Meena Alexander, India's foremost woman poet in English, for the past decade living in America, was begun in 1979, while she still lived and taught in Hyderabad. Her heroine Mira, who, like Meena, had just spent four years earning a Ph.D. dealing with Wordsworth at Nottingham University, now finds herself trying to understand her relationship as a foreign-returned academic to the ongoing social struggles in India. The classes and college where she teaches—in Sarojini Naidu's old "Golden Threshhold" home—get only one full-fledged scene of their own, but there are abundant descriptions of the nearby streets, monuments (especially the physically isolated and totally ignored Gandhi statue), and public buildings: cafés; "hotel" rooming houses; a sad Divine Life/Hare Krishna temple largely for foreign devotees; a one-room clinic, where Mira's protector-landlady-doctor, called "Little Mother," ministers to India's many miserable, wounded, and ill destitutes. Most of the novel is set in Little Mother's house with its courtyard, roof terrace, overarching pipal tree, and blaring Sagar Cinema...
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SOURCE: "Teaching the Sylvan Swami," in Belles Lettres, Vol. 7, No. 1, Fall, 1991, p. 46.
[In the following review, Mehta praises the ironic tone and confident narration of Nampally Road.]
When the priest, the butcher, the psychiatrist, and the candlestick maker can't explain and organize the world teeming around us, there's always the poet. Or so Mira Kannadical thinks. After four years of graduate school in England, Mira has found her guru: Wordsworth. She'll return to India, teach a course on her sylvan swami at a local college in Hyderabad and write poetry that will "stitch it all together: my birth in India a few years after national independence, my colonial education, my rebellion against the arranged marriage my mother had in mind for me, my years of research in England."
Nampally Road is Meena Alexander's first novel. It is an absorbing, lyrical story about a twenty-five-year-old who tentatively realizes that her poetic vision cannot accommodate the grim reality and chaos of daily life in Hyderabad. Like Mira, Alexander was born in India in 1951. Like her protagonist, she examines literature's ability to reveal and heal the dislocations that fracture life in a posteolonial, riot-riven land. Like Mira, Alexander is a poet, although unlike Mira she has three elegant collections of verse to her credit.
In 1976, when Mira arrives in Hyderabad, Indira...
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SOURCE: A review of Women in Romanticism, in Review of English Studies, Vol. 43, No. 172, November, 1992, pp. 569-71.
[In the following excerpt, Trott examines the methodology and themes of Women in Romanticism, noting the defects and strengths of Alexander's views.]
Meena Alexander takes Wollstonecraft to be a woman in Romanticism, rather than a precursor. Her book [Women in Romanticism] is most keenly aware, though, of the ways in which the term needs to be redefined if women writers are to have a place of their own within the Romantic estate. The three women in question—Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, and Shelley, two tragically blood-related, one the sibling of the chief Romantic poet—work surprisingly well together. Alexander exploits their sharp dissimilarities, and sees them partly in terms of historical change, but there are unusual links made, too, as for example between Dorothy Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, and the Lucy poems.
Although she erects a conceptual framework around the ideas of self and subjectivity, the body and maternity, knowledge and power, Alexander's method is essentially biographical. The undogmatic stance is most effective where Dorothy is concerned, and the book might readily have been a monograph. Theoretical feminists will no doubt find the approach tame, even timid; of Dorothy's position in Tintern Abbey, for instance,...
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SOURCE: A review of Night-Scene, the Garden, in World Literature Today, Vol. 67, No. 2, Spring, 1993, p. 444.
[In the following review, King situates the themes, structure, and voice of Night-Scene, the Garden in the context of Alexander's other poetry collections.]
A Syrian Christian Indian, Meena Alexander attended university in the Sudan, wrote her first poetry in French, wrote a British doctoral dissertation on German phenomenology, then returned to India, where she published three books of poetry before marrying an American. She now teaches English literature in New York. Someone for whom poetry is more a process—usually consisting of intensely personal, somewhat obscure lyric sequences—than a set of polished artifacts, she early took up a body of basic symbols which recur throughout her verse, symbols which act as images for parts of the self and its desires as well as for the external world. A continual exile moving between countries and cultures, a student of philosophy, she is concerned with the construction of the self and its relationship to memory, history, actuality, and notions of identity, all the while aware that the discovery of the self through the act of writing is equally imaginative and based as much on wishes, false memory, and fantasy as on fact. If some passages of her poems appear facile in sentiment and underworked, others are intense and complex.
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SOURCE: "Voices of Empire," in Times Literary Supplement, No. 4697, April 7, 1993, p. 22.
[In the following review, Couto traces the influence and thematic significance of colonialism in Fault Lines.]
Both these books—one a memoir [Fault Lines by Meena Alexander], the other a vivid and enthralling playback of voices [Unbecoming Daughters of the Empire by Shirley Chew and Anna Rutherford, eds.]—unfold private lives stamped by Empire and shaped by emerging forces of independence and nationalism. Meena Alexander, an Indian poet, novelist and academic now based in New York, makes clear that the geographical and cultural disruptions in her life compel her to write. She is inspired by a childhood and adolescence full of the contradictions of a feudal Syrian Christian ethos: her grandfather was a theologian and nationalist, her father, a civil servant who had been educated at Imperial College, London, a royalist at heart yet devoted to the secular ideals proclaimed by an independent India. This was a family which valued the social gospel of uplift for the poor but did not question its own privilege, or the system of values familiar to the educated elite in the subcontinent.
From this seedbed, Alexander's poetic narrative develops through her awareness of the growth of the Communist Party in India which successfully ran her home state of Kerala for many years. Despite the...
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SOURCE: A review of Fault Lines, in Belles Lettres, Vol. 8, No. 4, Summer, 1993, p. 43.
[In the following review, Dunlap notes the stylistic features of Fault Lines.]
Like Daly and Behar, poet Meena Alexander employs images of weaving and crossing borders in Fault Lines. A dizzying multiplicity of threads and borders distinguishes this memoir by an Indian woman who has lived many places and speaks many languages. There is a litany of cities within India: Khartoum, where she entered university at age 13; Nottingham, where she began her doctorate at 18; and that city where she currently lives, "where the whole world swarms," New York. And the languages: Malayalam, Hindi, Arabic, English, French. Of many worlds and of no world, her life in pieces, Alexander confronts radical dislocation and female invisibility. She recounts her struggles to find her voice, artistically and sometimes literally, as she moves in a world where wisdom holds that "The first thing a girl should learn is when to keep her silence," where only boys are taught "to read maps, figure out the crossroads of the world." Alexander's voice is a treasure. Having introduced how the memoir was solicited as part of The Feminist Press's Cross-Cultural Memoir Series, she begins:
Multiple birth dates ripple, sing inside me, as if a long stretch of silk were passing through my fingers. I think of...
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SOURCE: "The Doors to Home and History: Post-Colonial Identities in Meena Alexander and Bharati Mukherjee," in Amerasia Journal, Vol. 19, No. 3, 1993, pp. 103-13.
[In the following essay, Davé compares the narrative strategies of Bharati Mukherjee's Middleman and Other Stories and Alexander's Nampally Road, concentrating on their different approaches to and uses of Western stereotyped definitions of cultural identity.]
The very practice of remembering and rewriting leads to the formation of politicized consciousness and self-identity. Writing often becomes the context through which new political identities are forged. It becomes a space for struggle and contestation about reality itself. Chandra T. Mohanty, Cartographies of Silence: Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism
"How does history make us?" is a question posed in Meena Alexander's novel Nampally Road. This question is the basis for my examination of post-colonial inquiry and studies of identity in Asians of Indian descent. The past influences the present and thus Indian cultural heritage is inherently tied to British imperialism. While most people would not deny this relationship, post-Independence Indian writers are still often trapped in the position of a Western colonial subject. Be it Western education. American lifestyle, or the pursuit of the...
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SOURCE: A review of Fault Lines, in World Literature Today, Vol. 68, No. 4, Autumn, 1994, p. 883.
[In the following review, Rao emphasizes the variety of cultural experiences related in Fault Lines.]
Traditionally, Indian writers have fought shy of talking about themselves, and of the great classical writers of India like Kalidasa we know very little. Under the increasing impact of the West, however, more and more Indian writers, mostly Indo-Anglian writers, have been recording their life histories. Autobiographies and memoirs of Indian writers who write in English have now become a familiar and accepted fact of twentieth-century India, and the age at which they write their memoirs is decreasing, raising a question about the value of a work which does not record the fullness of one's life's achievements. The author of the present memoir wrote hers when she was about forty-two years old.
Meena Alexander is primarily a poet, though she has written a novel and some essays and is currently a professor of English at Hunter College in New York City. The title Fault Lines suggests the impact of her exposure to a number of languages and cultures beginning with her early childhood; it is also a key to her "desperate awareness of [her] femaleness, a sense of shame." She is, in her own words, "a woman cracked by multiple migrations."
Alexander records her...
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SOURCE: A review of Fault Lines, in Amerasia Journal, Vol. 22, No. 2, 1996, pp. 164-66.
[In the following review, Grice offers a thematic and stylistic overview of Fault Lines in terms of an evolving, multi-ethnic, autobiographical tradition among women of the diaspora.]
Meena Alexander's Fault Lines locates itself in that in-between generic territory already occupied by another Asian American woman, Maxine Hong Kingston. Both subtitled "memoirs," The Woman Warrior and Fault Lines, are situated in the literal no-man's land of women's autobiographical writings of the diaspora experience. The similarities extend beyond the subtitle. Like Kingston, too, Alexander traverses generic boundaries, incorporating poems, reminiscences and mini-treatises, so that the very texture of the text is fragmented, and these fragments cannot be pieced together perfectly. In her opening chapter, Alexander asks how she can spell out the fragments of such a broken geography as hers, how to represent the fault lines that exist between her disparate existence. Her solution is to write in fragments, resulting in a fractured narrative that mirrors Alexander's own life. Worlds and words alike are askew. She traces her history across multiple geographical locations (Sudan, England, New York), as well as differing cultural environments, moving from an India in postcolonial turmoil and rupture to the...
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SOURCE: "Three Indian American Writers Examine Cultural Conflict and Identity," in Chicago Tribune Books, May 25, 1997, pp. 1, 9.
[In the following excerpt, Bob highlights postcolonial identity issues explored in Manhattan Music.]
The issues of identity and cultural displacement are the core of Meena Alexander's novel Manhattan Music. She has assembled a large, urbane and angst-ridden international cast of artists, poets, business figures and academics, all partly shaped by terror and violence. The central figure, Sandhya Rosenblum, has come to America as the wife of a Jewish man and lost herself in the process. She drifts into an affair with an Egyptian post-doctoral scholar who is too numbed by the chaotic state of the world to provide her with real support. He explains this to her by drawing a comparison to Frankenstein's monster.
[I]mmigrants are like that. Our spiritual flesh scooped up from here and there. All our memories sizzling. But we need another. Another for the electricity. So we can live.
In contrast to Sandhya's helpless depression, her friend Draupati, an American-born performance artist (descent: mostly Indian, part African, Japanese, Chinese, Filipino and a smattering of "low European"), is able to create meaning through her art, in which she represents and attempts to define the...
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SOURCE: A review of River and Bridge, in World Literature Today, Vol. 71, No. 4, Autumn, 1997, pp. 867-8.
[In the following review, Perry considers the principal themes, motifs, and style of River and Bridge.]
To indicate how difficult book publication is even for important Indian English poets, it may be noted that River and Bridge was substantially ready in 1988 or at least 1990, the manuscript then opening with an India-referring title poem used later for the fine closing note: "Deer Park at Sarnath," which thoughtfully, not at all sadly, ends, "There is no grief like this, / the origin of landscape is memory." Then in 1995 Rupa in New Delhi published a hardcover edition of River and Bridge without eleven of the forty-nine poems included in the 1996 TSAR edition. Both the Rupa and TSAR editions begin with "Relocation"—"Scraping it all back: // A species of composition / routine as crossing streets / or taking out the garbage / nothing to blow the mind"—clearly a poem for a hip American audience, and they both end with the same poem in the section, "San Andreas Fault," indicating again an American setting for this much-traveled, supposedly "unhoused" or diaspora poet. "Relocation" also alludes to the preeminently American W. C. Williams—"The road to the hospital / is contagious already," and "as Broadway thickens with bicycles" presents "the imagination ordering itself." So...
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SOURCE: A review of Manhattan Music, in World Literature Today, Vol. 72, No. 2, Spring, 1998, pp. 456-7.
[In the following review, Rao admires the narrative technique of Manhattan Music.]
What purports to be the lives and living thoughts and feelings, and problems and promises of a more recent immigrant group—namely, Indians from India living in the New York/New Jersey area—is orchestrated in the novel Manhattan Music by a successful Indian immigrant, who, herself having been exposed to a number of places and countries outside her own home in Kerala in the southern part of India, shows a sensitive awareness of the state of the immigrants. In this story we meet Christians and Jews, Muslims and Hindus, Indians from East India and the West Indies and from Egypt. There is ample sexual stuff (including extramarital affairs) and racial tension. Sandhya, a Syrian Christian (Catholics in Kerala call themselves Syrian Christians and regard themselves as above all other Christians and do not marry outside their group), marries an American Jewish gentlemen and is not exactly happy with her married life, harried not by any domestic problem but by her own voluptuous fancies (something unthinkable in traditional India). Draupadi, an Indian immigrant from the West Indies, is the other important character who exercises some influence on Sandhya, while the male characters are of secondary importance....
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Further Reading
Clausen, Christopher. "Romanticism Left and Right." Sewanee Review 91, No. 4 (October 1983): 672-80.
Critiques Alexander's use of "subjectivity" theories in The Poetic Self, situating her book in a review of contemporaneous studies of Romanticism.
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Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©2000 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.


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The recipe originally calls for brandy or Madiera, but
is a perfect match for this pate. Riesling, a white wine variety originally from Germany, is a flowery, lightly perfumed wine and, despite those descriptors, is one of a few white wines that can stand up to strong flavors. Its sturdy balance of sugar and acidity makes the varietal a great partner for the rich pate, which means you should enjoy the rest of the bottle with the finished product, after sacrificing only a few small (but very tasty) tablespoons to the recipe.
Reducing Riesling with a bay leaf and whole clove concentrates the wine's flavor and increases the aromatics, resulting in an even deeper, more complex-flavored pate.
Chicken Liver Pate with Riesling
2 medium onions, minced
16 tablespoons butters, divided (2 sticks)
1 pound chicken livers
6 tablespoons Riesling
1 bay leaf
1 whole clove
1 cup cream cheese (8 ounces)
Spices: all spice, dried tarragon, crushed thyme
Salt and pepper
Saute the minced onions in four tablespoons of butter, over low heat, until the onions are softly wilted. Meanwhile, remove any fat and discolored spots from the chicken livers.
Heat the Riesling in a small saucepot with the bay leaf and clove, over medium heat. Let the wine simmer for a few minutes, until the liquid is reduced to about a third.
Add the chicken livers to the onion pan. Continue to cook the livers over medium-low heat, several minutes, until "stiffened." That means, the outside of the livers should be brown, but the inside still tender and lightly pink. Once stiffened, add the spiced Riesling (having removed the bay leaf and clove first), turn up the heat, and let the mixture boil for a few moments.
Transfer the mixture to a food processor or blender, and add the cream cheese and butter. Once blended, add a pinch of all spice, tarragon, thyme to taste, as well as a healthy dose of salt and pepper. The pate should be slightly overseasoned, as the taste will be slightly dulled once cooled.
Transfer the mixture to a large bowl, or individual ramekins. Cover and chill for several hours. Serve with crackers or toasted bread, and a big glass of
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Breaking news now on The Fox Report and the Pentagon now confirming to Fox News the retired general Norman Schwarzkopf.
Has died.
He's the man who commanded the coalition that push Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait.
In 1991 Fox News military analyst Bob scales on the phone with us now.
-- general scales he wrote a book called certain victory you have a lot of knowledge of the history of the Iraq War but.
Personal knowledge with this man you call him truly the first great American hero.
After Vietnam your thoughts.
Well that's exactly right -- -- remember like come from the same generation.
As general Schwarzkopf and the victory in Iraq the great we'll -- 1991.
As he says in his own book.
It doesn't take -- -- Was the vindication of my generation of the Vietnam generation because it was our first great military victory.
After the defeat in Vietnam and he took that very personally.
I knew general Schwarzkopf very well going back to his time as a major in the Pentagon.
And he always carried it -- -- -- this rocks that had.
The stated month that went with the defeat in Vietnam and when he.
When he defeated the Iraqi military and the plains of Iraq.
When he was able to do that one of the first things he says that the -- -- was.
This is a vindication for my generation -- Well you know it is some of the detail on his life general scales many people may not know.
He was born in Trenton, New Jersey and in fact his father founded and -- was up heading the New Jersey State Police force -- mean he had.
A great background as a child and leadership in his home.
That's right remember his dad was the one that led the investigation.
In the -- -- -- in the -- son's kidnapping.
In in the 1930s so he was already a national figure he went to West Point class of 1956.
He had one of the highest IQ's in his class he was always up big burly bear of a guy who was always outspoken.
And he and his wife Barbara were sort of you know.
Bigger than life figures in the army when I was a major and -- -- colonel and I always had enormous respect for him and when he was chosen to head the coalition effort in a rock a lot of people had doubts about Norman Schwarzkopf.
But by golly once Saddam Hussein was defeated.
And the Iraqi Army collapsed after a hundred hours of the ground war is reputation was clearly indicated here.
You know general scales I would ask you about a detail in general -- -- background and it has to do with his upbringing.
I understand he moved to -- ran when he was twelve years old so when he would talk.
And have knowledge about that part of the world it came from a place that was truly genuine with him.
-- try to remember he was sent come Central Command commander when the war broke out.
And he has spent a great deal of time in the Middle East and in the Middle East intimately not only Iran but also in Saudi Arabia.
So I guess in a way that once the war started didn't and President Bush ask him to take on this mission.
He had already had sort of a graduate level education if you will.
-- how wars are fought in the desert -- that separated him in many ways.
But he is -- -- contemporaries who have mainly back in those days focused on fighting a war.
You know for people who were just joining us.
General Norman Schwarzkopf has died -- confirmed that tonight with the Pentagon he led operations desert shield and desert storm which were.
The largest deployments of US forces and equipment.
Since the Vietnam War and general scales you just mentioned.
President George H.
Bush you know he is ailing in the hospital but we have just gotten a statement.
From the former president and I want to share -- with our viewers if you're still with us.
The former president -- says.
Barbara and I mourn the loss of a true American patriot and one of the great military leaders of his generation on simply reading this off my screen now.
A distinguished member of that long gray line.
Hailing from West Point.
General Norman Schwarzkopf to me -- minimize the duty service country -- That has defended our freedom and seen this great nation for our most trying international crises.
More than that he was a good and decent man and a dear friend.
Barbara and I send our condolences to his wife Brenda and they're wonderful family and quote this.
From president George H.
Bush whose ailing tonight and Houston hospital.
But speaking out through this statement about the passing of general Schwarzkopf.
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Against Patriotism
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"Here, brother, for you a flag," sing the proud sons and daughters of Armenia, formerly the proud sons and daughters of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. "Look at it, three colors / It's our gifted symbol / Let it shine against the enemy / Let Armenia always be glorious!"
Down in Harare, where the dictator is murdering his opponents, the people's voices rise: "O lift high the banner, the flag of Zimbabwe / The symbol of freedom proclaiming victory / We praise our heroes' sacrifice / And vow to keep our land from foes / And may the Almighty protect and bless our land."
And here in the land of the free and the home of the brave, the Star Spangled Banner waves over another chosen people: "Blest with victory and peace / May the heav'n-rescued land / Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation."
In every national anthem, the flag is glorious, the hills beautiful, the citizens courageous, free and blessed.
There's a reason all national anthems are the same: Patriotism is a one-size-fits-all emotion manufactured of sentiments that everybody subscribes to — freedom, loyalty, honor, brotherhood — at least while they're waiting for the ballgame to start. Problem is, once the first pitch is thrown, patriotism requires you to cheer for one team only.
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into an America-love competition — or a tribunal on Barack and Michelle Obama's allegiance to the fatherland and (yet another) 10-gun salute to the heroism of John McCain.
Obama stood up for wife and country in Independence, Mo.; an abbreviated version of his speech was published in Parade, alongside McCain's own homily on patriotism. The pundits dutifully parsed the differences, and a few emerged. In Parade, Obama speaks of equality; McCain doesn't mention it. Obama traces his love of and loyalty to his country to memories of childhood and family; McCain downplays "sentiments about place and kinship." McCain's manifesto has a military band playing in the background; Obama's recalls choruses of "Up With People."
But there are far more similarities than differences between these two patriots. Both men exalt freedom and sacrifice; both see the latter as necessary in defense of the former. Both laud their land's wealth and power. Both equate loyalty to country with, as McCain put it, loyalty to "countrymen."
Listening to Obama's oration brought a lump to my throat. But my response was testament less to what he said or how he said it — the guy, after all, could make audiences weep reciting the ingredients on a Gatorade bottle — than to the power of sentimentality. Nationalism is the ideology of the banal, said Danilo Kis, who would retch in his grave to read the descriptor at the head of his Wikipedia page: "a Yugoslavian/Serbian writer of Hungarian/ Jewish-Serbian origin."
Say "pride," "Thanksgiving," "hearts," "Martin Luther King," "gratitude," and "renewal" all within 28 minutes, or put a child kissing a puppy on the TV screen. Either will reliably jerk tears of happiness. Patriotism is as buttery and sugary as apple pie.
As antidote to all these empty calories, I spent last week reading the great anti-patriots. Virginia Woolf, asked in 1938 how to fight fascism, wrote "Three Guineas," in which she exhorted "[f]reedom from unreal loyalties . . . You must rid yourself of pride of nationality in the first place; also of religious pride, college pride, family pride, sex pride and those unreal loyalties that spring from them."
Leo Tolstoy 40 years earlier called patriotism "stupidity." "To destroy war," he declared, "destroy patriotism."
And in between, on the eve of the revolution that toppled Russia's czar in the name of international working-class solidarity, the feminist and anarchist Emma Goldman penned "Patriotism," in which she drew a bright line connecting patriotism and militarism. "Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate," she wrote. "Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot consider themselves better, nobler, grander, [and] more intelligent than the living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill, and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all others."
Forgive Emma for simplifying; she was a polemicist, not a political scientist. But she got it basically right. Patriotism is by definition chauvinistic: My country and your country can't both be the best. And chauvinism breeds antagonism, real or invented. The terrorists attacked us, George Bush keeps saying, because "they hate our freedom."
Patriotism demands obeisance to all warriors. "For those who have fought on the battlefield under the Stars and Stripes . . . no further proof of such sacrifice is necessary," declared Obama in Missouri. He named his opponent among those deserving automatic respect and implicitly chastised his supporter Wesley Clark, a warrior himself, for suggesting that getting shot out of a plane does not qualify a man for office.
Obama claimed patriotism to be an "instinct." But you aren't born loving your country. Indeed, the candidate noted that this loyalty has to be taught (he mentioned civics classes). And in a world where economies and communications are boundary-less, where 67 million people are displaced or in exile and millions more migrate "voluntarily" for work, this education — or reeducation — is a complicated, sometimes brutal business.
Patriotism is the love of a "homeland," and a homeland is usually assumed to be a state.
But to be accepted as citizens of an adopted "homeland," migrants must demonstrate fealty to a state that punishes them for the very marginality and desperation that make them useful to that state's economy.
Then there's the project of creating new states. "[P]eople take them, homelands, from me, and give them to me if it occurs to them, and still ask me to love them unconditionally," writes the novelist and essayist Dubravka Ugreiç, whose Yugoslavian passport has been replaced by that of her new "homeland," Croatia.
Ugreiç chronicles the hellish years during which political opportunists, gangsters and war profiteers wrenched apart her once-united, multicultural nation and divided it into a bunch of new, mutually despising ones. Newborn patriotisms required the death and rebirth of histories: Books had to be burned, intellectuals, even travelers, renounced, and memories erased and replaced.
It was, Ugreiç writes, a "national mythomania" of "thousand-year dreams" held by heroic "races" — Serb, Croat, Slovenian, Bosnian, Albanian — each threatened by barbarian Others whose atrocities were so savage that self-defense necessitated "ethnic cleansing." Years of terror, violence, poverty, displacement and lies drove people so mad that they were "ready to grab hold of the one and only truth they [were] offered, like a straw": their new nationhood.
Ugreiç is having none of it. "I am no one. And everyone," she writes. "In Croatia I shall be a Serb, in Serbia a Croat, in Bulgaria a Turk, in Turkey a Greek, in Greece a Macedonian, in Macedonia a Bulgarian." She is, in other words, a cosmopolitan, citizen of the world.
I too am proud to call myself a "rootless cosmopolitan," which, incidentally, was the fascist euphemism for Jew. But you don't have to be Jewish — or rootless — to be cosmopolitan. To be a citizen of the world does not mean having no home or identity.
Rather, argues Kwame Anthony Appiah, a worldly Ghanaian-British philosopher with deep ties to both places, we can be "partial" cosmopolitans by assuming two commitments: an obligation to others beyond kith, kin and citizenship; and "[taking] seriously the value not just of human life but of particular human lives, which means taking an interest in the practices and beliefs that lend them significance." When the two ideals of "universal concern and respect for legitimate differences . . . clash," Appiah writes in Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, "cosmopolitanism is the name not of the solution but of the challenge."
On Independence Day, my partner Paul and I walked down the road to celebrate the 80th birthday of the farmer who owns or owned much of the land on our hill. We don't share many political views with Wendell, but we appreciate his dry Vermont humor and the love with which he and his wife tend the trees and fields on the road. Wendell is different from us — we don't always understand the practices and values of the other — but he is by no means a stranger.
After supper — a choice of meat or vegetarian lasagna — we gathered on benches and folding chairs at the top of the broad, sloping hayfield to watch fireworks. Most were red, white and blue. They made big noises — the rat-a-tat of automatic weapons, the whistles of missiles. But the grand finale was neither patriotic nor warlike. The explosions opened in slender silver and yellow petals, spreading almost silently down the sky. They didn't look like bombs bursting in air. They looked like spider mums.
When the oohing and aahing was over, we all went into the house and thanked each other and said good-night. Then Paul and I walked home under the moon that shines on friend and foe this whole world over.


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Event Management
Although Event Management is not a term found in scripture, the role is clearly defined in the lives of many key Biblical figures.
In the Old Testament we read of Nehemiah and how he managed rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem similarly to how we manage events today. Firstly he first prayed and received direction from God on what to do and how to carry out the task. He then networked and planned with people in high places to put the vision into place. He spied out the land and put the right people in the right places to achieve the objectives. He knew it would be challenging so he strategized, encouraged and worked with the people through a difficult process, until they broke through. He stood against the taunts of the enemy and kept his team on track to reach their God-given goal.
Today, event managers must play a similar role to Nehemiah; to listen to the Lord, obey, strategize, resist the enemy, develop their teams, find resources and work to see the breakthroughs needed for God's will to be done.
Nahum 1:15 (NIV) says "...celebrate your festivals...". Accordingly, as event managers we are often called upon to develop celebrations, conferences and to provide a platform for artists to evangelize and impact communities. Our role is to serve the Lord and see His purposes accomplished. Events can be as diverse as hosting secular celebrations with Christian content in your local community to managing a missions conference to train and release 1000's of Christians into the nations.
Jesus was the ultimate event manager. He demonstrated how to put together events tailored to multiple demographics. He knew how to draw a crowd and the best venue to address an audience. He prioritized time with the Father and attended celebrations, even highlighting the value of hospitality by turning water into wine. Though He faced attacks from His enemies He always looked after His team. He loved, wept and partied. He had a timeline and knew when and what needed to be accomplished. He didn't tolerate injustice but called for righteousness and He knew that doing the Father's will was the priority when pushing through to accomplish the goal even though it ultimately cost Him everything.
We need people with a mission's focus and a love of events to be trained in organizing and managing every component of an event. From marketing and promotion, budget and timeline, programming and backstage management, technical requirements and team management, through to the event debrief and SWOT analysis. Training is imperative to equip us to deal with the challenges that will inevitably come the way of event managers working to extend the Kingdom of God. We need to be equipped with skills and spiritual understanding to accomplish the task, knowing that there is an enemy trying to undermine all we do for God's glory.
Through its capacity to support artists and sports people, Event Management is listed under the Faculty/College of Arts and Sports. We build the platform so they can utilize their skills and fulfill their call to influence our world with Godly values.
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Imagine the ministry of YWAM with no gatherings, no Call to All, no conferences or seminars, no celebrations for the 50th anniversary or otherwise, no Olympic outreaches, not musical, artistic or dance performances, no events at all. The reality is that this is something we cannot imagine! Our coming together for large events have produced some of the greatest blessings from God that YWAM has known. But behind all these events are people who make it happen. People who believe God to bring together the impossible. People with skills to organize events and make it fun and meaningful. This is the heart of the School of Event Management that will be running in Kona beginning Sept 27, 2012.
The Art of Peace- Making the Olympic Truce a Reality in 2012!
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A two-hour history lesson from a Prime Minister isn't an ordinary lunch appointment for me, but then very little about the Walk for Truce campaign has been "ordinary". Sali Beresha, Prime Minister of Albania since 2005, has more authority than most to talk about the history of national and international upheaval. As the first democratically elected President of Albania, leading from 1992 to 1997, he was not only midwife to the birth of the Republic of Albania, but witnessed up close the horrifying conflict in the Balkans. So our discussion of the question of how to manage significant disputes within and between nations, but without resorting to violence, was far from academic.


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What a wonderful morning it was at the Kingsley House today. The tulips and daffodils are blooming and the muffins are hot. This was the first weekend we had an almost full house and the first time I really got to cook for a crowd, You may think I'm crazy but I love it.
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