TY - JOUR
AU - Shehata, Reda A
AB - REDA A . SHEHATA The few critics who write about the poetry of Moniza Alvi—a contemporary Pakistani-born British poet (b. 1954) who has not until now received the due critical attention she deserves—tend to focus on what seems to be the strongest aspect of her poetry, namely her use of the trope of the body as nation. Deryn Rees-Jones, for example, points out that by making the body as her country, Alvi “draws together the private and the domestic into the public and national realm” (207); Sarah Broom indicates that she uses the trope of body to probe the experience of identifying with “two different ethnic communities”—that of her Indian father and that of her English mother (48); Renata Senktas explains that Alvi uses the metaphor of the body to present different “landscapes and histories” that constitute who she is by making them “co-exist, in harmony or conflict . . .” (203). However, those critics miss other contexts in which the body figures: the body in situation, the body as a sign, and the body as a site of a place-torn identity. Building on some notions from largely Western philosophical, feminist, and geographical theories of the body, this essay examines those 
TI - Moniza Alvi and Representations of the Body
JF - Contemporary Women's Writing
DO - 10.1093/cww/vpw046
DA - 2017-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/moniza-alvi-and-representations-of-the-body-lPi3RqRVae
SP - 168
EP - 183
VL - 11
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -