Meenu B
Biographic Data
| ID | 147906 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meenu B |
| GIVEN NAMES | B |
| FAMILY NAME | Meenu |
| SIGNATURE | B M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vellore Institute of Technology University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9141-3921 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Braided Narrative Strands in Autistic Life Writing: Reading Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement: Stories from the Frontline as Métissage
Critical autism studies is an interdisciplinary field that challenges traditional medical perspectives on autism. In this field, autistic life writing plays an integral role, as it foregrounds autistic voices, offering counter-narratives to dominant discourses that pathologize autism. Similar to Françoise Lionnet’s framing of female textuality as métissage (a blending of diverse influences), autistic textuality in this context can be seen as a cr…
Dismantling the Savarna Patriarch
Representation, stereotypes and change
Drawing on Stuart Hall’s (2013) theory of representation and stereotyping, this study critically examines how meaning is encoded in Indian advertisements and how these portrayals reflect broader ideological negotiations around gender identity. The media landscape has undergone a notable transformation in its representation of gender identities, shifting from predominantly heteronormative portrayals to the inclusion of diverse gender narratives, p…
Dalit podcasts as counterpublics
In this paper, the 14-episode series of podcasts entitled Caste in the USA by Thenmozhi Soundararajan, the founder of Equality Labs, conducted in collaboration with The Firstpost, shall be studied within the framework of Dalit counterpublics. These podcasts record experiences of casual casteism in academia/workplaces within the Dalit diaspora, in the United States. We argue how (i) these podcasts qualify as digitally archived Oral Histories and a…
Neuroqueer embodiment and nomadic subjectivity in autistic life writing
Autistic life writing refers to first-hand accounts of autistic lived experiences which challenge dominant deficit-based understandings of autism. Within autistic life writing, texts that directly address the relationship between autism, gender identity and sexuality have recently increased in number. However, scholarly work on the subject of neuroqueer embodiment (intentional expression of neurodivergence that queers both neuronormative and hete…
The “Abject,” Animalistic Male Corpulence
Delineating Dalit trauma
Shilpa Raj's memoir The Elephant Chaser's Daughter (2017) and Yashica Dutt's Coming Out as a Dalit: A Memoir (2019) map a specific kind of individual trauma, along with the cultural trauma that is found in other Dalit life writings. Both the narratives begin with the death of another Dalit individual whom the memoirists consider as a sibling/comrade who lacked the partial 'privilege' they enjoyed and the narratives can be read as negotiating this…
The politics of fat positivity and fat acceptance
While the representation of the fat body in post-millennial mainstream South Indian films has often been problematic due to the inherent biases against non-normative bodies, a promising trend has been visible in recent post-millennial South Indian movies centered on fat protagonists. Known as "fat films" within fat activism for their stance on fat positivity and fat acceptance, these movies claim to promote liberatory discourses regarding fat bod…
Anxious Encounters with the (Monstrous) Other
Stories about monstrous encounters during travel are ubiquitous in every culture. Scholars see them as figurative representations of the cultural anxiety related to traversing the unknown and the encounter with the "Other". For instance, the early Greek 'monster-on-the-road' tales are often read in the context of the expansion of trade among Greek city-states and the Greek colonization of far flung territories which necessitated going beyond the …
The Widow and the Wife”
In this article, I look at the radical Tamil reformist novel, A. Madhaviah's Muthumeenakshi published in 1903. This novel which dealt with common reformist issues of the time such as widow-remarriage and female education still struck a more radical note from the other reformist novels of the day in its support of the re-marriage of the widow who was not a virgin. In this paper, my attempt is to situate Muthumeenakshi amongst the other social refo…
The politics of fat positivity and fat acceptance
While the representation of the fat body in post-millennial mainstream South Indian films has often been problematic due to the inherent biases against non-normative bodies, a promising trend has been visible in recent post-millennial South Indian movies centered on fat protagonists. Known as "fat films" within fat activism for their stance on fat positivity and fat acceptance, these movies claim to promote liberatory discourses regarding fat bod…
Anxious Encounters with the (Monstrous) Other
Stories about monstrous encounters during travel are ubiquitous in every culture. Scholars see them as figurative representations of the cultural anxiety related to traversing the unknown and the encounter with the "Other". For instance, the early Greek 'monster-on-the-road' tales are often read in the context of the expansion of trade among Greek city-states and the Greek colonization of far flung territories which necessitated going beyond the …
The Widow and the Wife”
In this article, I look at the radical Tamil reformist novel, A. Madhaviah's Muthumeenakshi published in 1903. This novel which dealt with common reformist issues of the time such as widow-remarriage and female education still struck a more radical note from the other reformist novels of the day in its support of the re-marriage of the widow who was not a virgin. In this paper, my attempt is to situate Muthumeenakshi amongst the other social refo…
Anxious Encounters with the (Monstrous) Other
Stories about monstrous encounters during travel are ubiquitous in every culture. Scholars see them as figurative representations of the cultural anxiety related to traversing the unknown and the encounter with the "Other". For instance, the early Greek 'monster-on-the-road' tales are often read in the context of the expansion of trade among Greek city-states and the Greek colonization of far flung territories which necessitated going beyond the …
Delineating Dalit trauma
Shilpa Raj's memoir The Elephant Chaser's Daughter (2017) and Yashica Dutt's Coming Out as a Dalit: A Memoir (2019) map a specific kind of individual trauma, along with the cultural trauma that is found in other Dalit life writings. Both the narratives begin with the death of another Dalit individual whom the memoirists consider as a sibling/comrade who lacked the partial 'privilege' they enjoyed and the narratives can be read as negotiating this…
The politics of fat positivity and fat acceptance
While the representation of the fat body in post-millennial mainstream South Indian films has often been problematic due to the inherent biases against non-normative bodies, a promising trend has been visible in recent post-millennial South Indian movies centered on fat protagonists. Known as "fat films" within fat activism for their stance on fat positivity and fat acceptance, these movies claim to promote liberatory discourses regarding fat bod…
The “Abject,” Animalistic Male Corpulence
Braided Narrative Strands in Autistic Life Writing: Reading Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement: Stories from the Frontline as Métissage
Critical autism studies is an interdisciplinary field that challenges traditional medical perspectives on autism. In this field, autistic life writing plays an integral role, as it foregrounds autistic voices, offering counter-narratives to dominant discourses that pathologize autism. Similar to Françoise Lionnet’s framing of female textuality as métissage (a blending of diverse influences), autistic textuality in this context can be seen as a cr…
Dismantling the Savarna Patriarch
Representation, stereotypes and change
Drawing on Stuart Hall’s (2013) theory of representation and stereotyping, this study critically examines how meaning is encoded in Indian advertisements and how these portrayals reflect broader ideological negotiations around gender identity. The media landscape has undergone a notable transformation in its representation of gender identities, shifting from predominantly heteronormative portrayals to the inclusion of diverse gender narratives, p…
Dalit podcasts as counterpublics
In this paper, the 14-episode series of podcasts entitled Caste in the USA by Thenmozhi Soundararajan, the founder of Equality Labs, conducted in collaboration with The Firstpost, shall be studied within the framework of Dalit counterpublics. These podcasts record experiences of casual casteism in academia/workplaces within the Dalit diaspora, in the United States. We argue how (i) these podcasts qualify as digitally archived Oral Histories and a…
Neuroqueer embodiment and nomadic subjectivity in autistic life writing
Autistic life writing refers to first-hand accounts of autistic lived experiences which challenge dominant deficit-based understandings of autism. Within autistic life writing, texts that directly address the relationship between autism, gender identity and sexuality have recently increased in number. However, scholarly work on the subject of neuroqueer embodiment (intentional expression of neurodivergence that queers both neuronormative and hete…
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