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Indivisible

Banerjee, Neelanjana [u.a.] [Hrsg.]:
Indivisible : an anthology of contemporary South Asian American poetry / ed. by Neelanjana Banerjee, Summi Kaipa, and Pireeni Sundaralingam. - Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2010. - XXX, 254 S.
ISBN 978-1-557-28931-5 (pbk.)
US$ 24,95
ISBN 978-1-557-28932-2 (cloth)
US$ 65,00
DDC: 811.54080895

Beschreibung
The first anthology of its kind, Indivisible brings together forty-nine American poets who trace their roots to Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Featuring award-winning poets including Meena Alexander, Agha Shahid Ali, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, and Vijay Seshadri, here are poets who share a long history of grappling with a multiplicity of languages, cultures, and faiths. The poems gathered here take us from basketball courts to Bollywood, from the Grand Canyon to sugar plantations, and from Hindu-Muslim riots in India to anti-immigrant attacks on the streets of post–9/11 America.
   Showcasing a diversity of forms, from traditional ghazals and sestinas to free verse, experimental writing, and slam poetry, Indivisible presents 141 poems by authors who are rewriting the cultural and literary landscape of their time and their place. Includes biographies of each poet. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Editors' Preface. xv
Thank Yous. xviii
Introduction. xix
Reetika Vazirani. 3
Vandana Khanna. 7
Mohammad Faisal Hadi. 12
Maya Khosla. 16
Tanuja Mehrotra. 22
Vijay Seshadri. 30
Bhanu Kapil. 35
Vikas Menon. 38
Summi Kaipa. 42
Minal Hajratwala. 46
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. 54
Sejal Shah. 62
Neelanjana Banerjee. 66
Amarnath Ravva. 69
Mytili Jagannathan. 77
Srikanth Reddy. 80
Prageeta Sharma. 88
Sasha Kamini Parmasad. 91
Vivek Jain. 96
Ro Gunetilleke. 99
Amitava Kumar. 102
Sachin B. Patel. 111
Bushra Rehman. 117
Shailja Patel. 120
Sudeep Sen. 129
Aimee Nezhukumatathil. 133
Ravi Chandra. 137
Ralph Nazareth. 140
Meena Alexander. 143
Faisal Mohyuddin. 148
Dilruba Ahmed. 157
Pramila Venkateswaran. 164
Bhargavi C. Mandava. 167
Reena Narayan. 170
Homraj Acharya. 176
R. Parthasarathy. 181
Purvi Shah. 187
Kazim Ali. 191
Monica Ferrell. 194
Ravi Shankar. 198
Vinay Dharwadker. 202
Aryanil Mukherjee. 205
Indran Amirthanayagam. 209
Swati Rana. 214
Subhashini Kaligotla. 217
Mona Ali. 220
Agha Shahid Ali. 225
Pireeni Sundaralingam. 231
Jeet Thayil. 234
Acknowledgments. 241
Author Index. 249
Title Index. 251

Herausgeber
NEELANJANA BANERJEE is a teaching artist at the San Francisco Writers Corps and a past editor-in-chief of Asian Week.
SUMMI KAIPA is a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, author of three chapbooks and a play, and past editor of Interlope magazine. She is currently completing her residency in neuropsychology. Kaipa lives in Berkeley, California.
PIREENI SUNDARALINGAM is an award-winning poet, playwright, and cognitive scientist. A former PEN USA fellow, her work has been published in England, Ireland, Sweden, and the USA. She is currently working on her first collection of poetry.

Quellen: The University of Arkansas Press; Amazon; WorldCat; Google Books.