Train to Agra

Train to Agra
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Publisher : SIU Press
Total Pages : 70
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ISBN-10 : 9780809390281
ISBN-13 : 0809390280
Rating : 4/5 (280 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Train to Agra by : Vandana Khanna

Download or read book Train to Agra written by Vandana Khanna and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2001-08-15 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calling upon two cultures, Vandana Khanna’s Train to Agra meditates on the effects of displacement and expatriation on the construction of a young Indian American woman’s identity. The physical journeys undertaken by the speaker reflect her inner journey from immigrant child to Indian American woman, struggling to find her place between India and America, Krishna and Jesus, samosas and hamburgers. The speaker constantly tries to recapture visions, smells, and sounds of her childhood and her travels, but cannot do so without imagination. Her memory fails her, so through metaphor she invents her past as it should have been. Traveling through her reflections on childhood, fate, faith, death, and belonging, she comes to accept her reality as a construct of lived memories and wished-for fantasies.


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