Brown Girl Chromatography
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Brown Girl Chromatography

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Brown Girl Chromatography

About this book

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. Brown Girl Chromatography 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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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Elegy, 1998
  6. December 1992
  7. Elegy for the Surgeon
  8. America, 1997
  9. Lunchtime in Atlantic City
  10. Birthday Photograph, 1997
  11. Similar Shapes
  12. Model Minority
  13. Days at Laclede Place
  14. Scorekeeper
  15. Latchkey Kids
  16. Mondays with Baba
  17. Blue Collar Brown
  18. Fieldnotes (III)
  19. Receipts from AOL Instant Messenger (3)
  20. Americana, 1995
  21. Receipts from AOL Instant Messenger (1)
  22. Laundry Days
  23. Receipts from AOL Instant Messenger (14)
  24. October 2001
  25. Receipts from AOL Instant Messenger (15)
  26. Dada in Halcyon Days
  27. Receipts from AOL Instant Messenger (12)
  28. Paper Dolls
  29. Receipts from AOL Instant Messenger (10)
  30. Fieldnotes (I)
  31. Receipts from AOL Instant Messenger (2)
  32. Abnegation
  33. Receipts from AOL Instant Messenger (7)
  34. Before I Became a Sephora VIB Rouge
  35. Receipts from AOL Instant Messenger (8)
  36. Fieldnotes (II)
  37. Receipts from AOL Instant Messenger (6)
  38. Bitchcraft
  39. Receipts from AOL Instant Messenger (16)
  40. Roots
  41. Receipts from AOL Instant Messenger (5)
  42. Fieldnotes (V)
  43. Receipts from AOL Instant Messenger (11)
  44. Growing Old with Baba
  45. Receipts from AOL Instant Messenger (13)
  46. Jesse McCartney Live in Atlantic City, 2017
  47. Receipts from AOL Instant Messenger (9)
  48. Fieldnotes (IV)
  49. Receipts from AOL Instant Messenger (4)
  50. I Tried to Be a Good Bangladeshi Girl
  51. First Comes Poetry, Then Comes Makeup
  52. Acknowledgments

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