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Who Asks the Caterpillar by Jeanne Ellin (English) Paperback Book
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Peepal Tree Press, The Limited
ISBN-10
1900715961
ISBN-13
9781900715966
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30247981
Product Key Features
Book Title
Who Asks the Caterpillar?
Number of Pages
72 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General
Publication Year
2004
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Poetry
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.3 in
Item Weight
6.4 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
22
Number of Volumes
1 vol.
Dewey Decimal
821.9/2
Synopsis
In this collection, an Anglo-Indian poet offers a fresh approach to conveying the disorienting postcolonial experience, exploring themes of immersion and exposure to achieve an original and often humorous voice. The challenge of living between cultures and without "family hand-me-downs" propels these poems, as many investigate prominent themes in contemporary poetry--identity, cultural migration, and women's changing roles--while unwaveringly providing original insights. Drawing on Eastern and Western myths, this collection blends the power of shared ideas with the experiences of a minority group, providing a unique perspective., Quirky, imaginative, original and immensely appealing, Jeanne Ellin's poetry collection is packed full of lines you will find yourself reading out loud to the person next to you. Finding inspiration in things as diverse as a turkey sandwich, plastic bath ducks, Trisha and the mythology of ancient Greece, Jeanne is particularly struck by the way the old myths still mirror the truth of modern women's lives. She subjects these myths to a richly humorous, womanist, mass cultural reading, set in the world of celebrity, daytime television shows and pop counselling. Jeanne Ellin writes consciously as an Anglo-Indian, part of an 'invisible' group that has generally sunk its identity in a general Britishness. She, by contrast, has used her work to explore her sense of Indian origins, but finds her real source of inspiration in the ideas of anomaly and placelessness, themes she explores both directly and obliquely in her poetry. She writes of being 'cell deep... an elephant's child', but also that 'home is a land / whose texture my feet have forgotten'. But this sense of placelessness also offers the strangers' right 'to a place at every table' and the challenge of living without 'family hand-me-downs', when each day must begin with a naked newness. More obliquely, she uses the mythical figure of the merchild/merechild to explore this sense of inbetweeness; and focuses, in the title poem, on the pleasures and pains of transformation, where after 'a lifetime of voracious consuming' the caterpillar suddenly finds itself as 'an ethereal being' and complains 'I didn't sign up for this spiritual stuff'. Jeanne Ellin writes from an Anglo-Indian background, her experience in counselling and industrial mediation. She lives in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.
LC Classification Number
PR6105
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