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Shin, Eunice Period 06 01/08/02 Alexander: Fault Lines As Meena Alexander sees her life as a parcel of shards which have their own identities and implore to be recognized as distinct, she introspects into her fractured condition and finds no solace from the unceasing and permanent enumeration of various cultures, languages, and locals which serve to be the "faults" and defects of her selfhood. Alexander, using figurative language, writes of the multitude of distinct identities to create a structure that overwhelms the reader. She quickly blurts out the diverse locations she has been to, trying to elucidate her presence in the traditional life at Tiruvella and also in the bustling, modernistic community of Manhattan. The exotic languages of Malayalam and Hindi clash with the mundane ones of English and French. There is a parallelism in this rapid, almost callous way of listing, but evidently the paradox lurks as it reveals itself in the manifest disparities...

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