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Brown Girl Chromatography

by Anuradha Bhowmik
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Anuradha Bhowmik's life as a Bangladeshi-born American girl growing up as a first-generation immigrant in the United States gives shape to this debut collection. <i>Brown Girl Chromatography </i>interrogates issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality in a post-9/11 America while navigating the poet's millennial childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. The poems follow Bhowmik as she learns about the cruelties in both American and Bangladeshi worlds without any guidance or instruction on how to survive these conflicting spheres. Any visible traces of her Bangladeshi life result in racial ridicule from her peers, while participating and assimilating into American culture is met with violence and abuse at home. As language and memory intersect, Bhowmik draws on pop culture and free association to examine her displacement from many angles and make meaning out of hurt.

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