Abstract. Meena Alexander is one of the foremost Indo-American poets. Her literary works deal with migrant memories, separation, trauma of being uprooted, exile and loneliness. Alexander?s works have characteristic sensuousness in dealing with themes like exile and identity, nostalgic memory of India, the ancestral land of her ethnic origin.The present paper aims at drawing a cartography of subjective experiences of Meena Alexander in India, Sudan, England and New York. It also attempts to deliberate on her nostalgic act of vividly recreating the images of Tiruvalla and her grandmother?s house in Kerala. This process of recreating her past through her poems signifies her attempt of retaining historic legacy, although she could recollect the past events only in fragments. It is through her generative act that she knits all these patches of her subjective experiences, her wishful yearning and her well conserved memories of the homeland into a tapestry of verses.
Associate Professor of English, S.K. Porwal College, Kamptee, R.T.M. Nagpur University, Nagpur
