Geographics of Identity in Faultlines

Abstract

Meena Alexander is picking the shards of her variegated life experiences in her celebrated memoir Faultlines (1993). It is her history, politics, geography, religion, metaphysics as well as a quest for all these fixities. Geographics of identity is a purposeful usage to signify the technique of mapping an identity and its execution in the memoir. Smith and Watson spot memory, experience, identity, embodiment and agency as the constitutive processes of autobiographical subjectivity (15-16). In Faultlines they are associated with diasporic studies, postcolonial theory, existentialist philosophy, feminism and the reliability of language.