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presents from my aunts in pakistan How does the poet express her unresolved conflict of identity in the poem?
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Presents from My Aunts in Pakistan How does the poet express her unresolved conflict of identity in the poem? Presents from my aunts in Pakistan was written by Moniza Alvi in the late 1950's and is about a Pakistani born girl with an English mother and a Pakistani father. They migrated to England only a couple of months into her life, now sensing that she is 'of no fixed nationality' and living in two worlds. The Poet compares the exotic presents she receives with what she had seen at her school. The presents seem to form a link to an alternative way of life in Lahore, her birth place. Moniza Alvi writes about herself at thirteen unsure about her ethnic group. Her aunts send her three tunics from Pakistan, one peacock blue, one orange and the other apple-green for her teenage years. She also receives a pair of black slippers laced with gold...
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