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A Study Guide for Imtiaz Dharker's "Minority"
A Study Guide for Imtiaz Dharker's "Minority"
A Study Guide for Imtiaz Dharker's "Minority"
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A Study Guide for Imtiaz Dharker's "Minority"

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A Study Guide for Imtiaz Dharker's "Minority", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Studentsfor all of your research needs.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMar 22, 2018
ISBN9781535845885
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    A Study Guide for Imtiaz Dharker's "Minority" - Gale

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    Minority

    Imtiaz Dharker

    1994

    Introduction

    In Imtiaz Dharker's poem Minority, the speaker describes her life as a foreigner of the world, belonging nowhere and accepted by no one. The poem itself becomes personified, taking the form of an immigrant who moves into the reader's home and eats, squatting, in a corner. Minority is remarkable for its expressive figurative language—including metaphors, similes, personification, and gustatory imagery—as well as for its powerful social commentary, in which the reader is forced to recognize himself in the person of the outcast and starving immigrant who wanders, homeless, in the street. Published in the highly political collection Postcards from God (1994), itself a reaction to the riots between Hindus and Muslims sweeping India in the early nineties, Minority explores the themes of displacement and loneliness in the life of a person who—no matter where she travels—is never at home.

    Author Biography

    Dharker was born in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1954. Before she turned one, her family moved to Glasgow, Scotland, where Dharker was raised as a Scottish Muslim Calvinist. She attended university in Glasgow before eloping with an Indian Hindu and moving to Mumbai, India. Later, having separated, she moved to England and married Simon Powell, the founder of the Poetry Live! traveling lecture series. She splits her time between London, England, and Mumbai, India. She is an accomplished artist who has held over ten solo exhibitions of her drawings in India, Hong Kong, New York, and England. Her artwork is also included in her poetry collections; she describes the art as an inseparable part of the whole. In addition, she is a

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