act writing, seems me, makes a shelter, allows space otherwise hidden, — Meena Alexander, Shock Arrival: Reflections Postcolonial Experience

Meena Alexander The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience

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The act of writing, it seems to me, makes up a shelter, allows space to what would otherwise be hidden, crossed out, mutilated. Sometimes writing can work toward a reparation, making a sheltering space for the mind. Yet it feeds off ruptures, tears in what might otherwise seem a seamless, oppressive fabric.

Meena Alexander, The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience

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