“Writing in Search of a Homeland”: Re-creating Home in Meena Alexander’s <i>Fault Lines<i/>: A Memoir

Abstract

In this article I investigate Indian-American author Meena Alexander's autobiographical memoir, Fault Lines (2003). Multiply fragmented by relocations and remembrances, flights and motions, Alexander‟s memoir is relentlessly marked by her ceaseless quest for stability – at home and in exile. As she repeatedly emphasises her irresistible impulse to write since her childhood and particularly to write her self, I will attempt in this article to explore the importance of self-writing in diaspora. Consequently, I will argue that diasporic self-writing not only induces a therapeutic wholeness amidst disjunction and displacement, but also effectively de-creates and re-creates shifting and changing paradigms of the diasporic homes.