“SEEKING, FINDING A HOME”: CONFIGURATIONS OF TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITY IN SHANTA ACHARYA’S DREAMS THAT SPELL THE LIGHT (2010)
“SEEKING, FINDING A HOME”: CONFIGURATIONS OF TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITY IN SHANTA ACHARYA’S DREAMS THAT SPELL THE LIGHT (2010)

Summary/Abstract: Dominated by an intensely competitive globalisation that encourages the dissipation of borders and backgrounds, lifestyles and aesthetics, the contemporary world is imposing a growing need to define identity in terms of cultural and affective attachment. Numerous women poets in Great Britain debate issues of affiliation in original discourses revealing instances of typical postmodern hybridisation. Shanta Acharya is such an instance of kaleidoscopic personality: born in India, she was educated in her home country, the United Kingdom and the United States; she worked in all three countries as an economist, literary critic and poet, having published books on asset management, as well as poetry articles and collections. Acharya’s latest collection, Dreams That Spell the Night (Arc Publications, 2010), is a perfect illustration that globalisation is a cultural formula that reconciles the fractions of the metamodern self by placing it in a mutually accepting and absorbing environment where all differences are erased. Her poems create a space where the poet can assert her heterogeneous identity, capturing its transpersonal and transnational dimensions in perpetual intellectual versatility and emotional metamorphosis that generates a multitude of meanings to relevant moments and reference points.

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