Sandhya Shetty
Biographic Data
| ID | 3983921 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandhya Shetty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandhya |
| FAMILY NAME | Shetty |
| SIGNATURE | SHETTY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Hampshire |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Imperial Pharmakon
“The Quack Whom We Know”
Dying to Be a Lady Doctor
Malaria and Melancholia
Cruel Husbandry
Long read in relation to public health and gender/sexual mores, Katherine Mayo's Mother India (1927) has rarely been viewed from an animal studies perspective. This article proposes that the animal, tethered to the woman question and to the figure of the Muslim, is integral to the book's imperialist apologetics. Investigations of physical cruelty to women and to animals build Mayo's case against Hindu nationalists' bid for self-rule. Highlighting…
Nations must be defended
This essay explores repressed hostility and punitive fantasies in the discourse of international health, using Katherine Mayo's Mother India (1927). Multiple tendencies in interwar thinking converge in Mayo's book, making it a veritable archive of major, minor and emergent forces, including those shaping the phenomenon of 'international health' post-Versailles. Mother India provides a unique opportunity to explore how progressive principles of in…
The Indo-Mediterranean
We return to Derrida's 1974 Glas. It has probably never occurred to readers of Glas that it could have relevance for any kind of critique of empire - let alone a critique of empire via the Mediterranean. But Braudel's investigation of the difficult question of the `historical Mediterranean' is precisely the lens through which Glas's nascent critique of imperialism comes into focus. In this strange work, a `thinking' of passages emerges - disrupti…
(Dis)figuring the Nation
Research Article| November 01 1995 (Dis)figuring the Nation: Mother, Metaphor, Metonymy Sandhya Shetty Sandhya Shetty sandhya shetty is Associate Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. Most recently her work has appeared in Genders and Literature Interpretation Theory. An article on the Trinadadian novelist Earl Lovelace is forthcoming in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. Currently, she is preparing a book manuscript on me…
Masculinity, National Identity, and the Feminine Voice in The Wine of Astonishment
(Dis)figuring the Nation
Research Article| November 01 1995 (Dis)figuring the Nation: Mother, Metaphor, Metonymy Sandhya Shetty Sandhya Shetty sandhya shetty is Associate Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. Most recently her work has appeared in Genders and Literature Interpretation Theory. An article on the Trinadadian novelist Earl Lovelace is forthcoming in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. Currently, she is preparing a book manuscript on me…
Masculinity, National Identity, and the Feminine Voice in The Wine of Astonishment
(Dis)figuring the Nation
Research Article| November 01 1995 (Dis)figuring the Nation: Mother, Metaphor, Metonymy Sandhya Shetty Sandhya Shetty sandhya shetty is Associate Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. Most recently her work has appeared in Genders and Literature Interpretation Theory. An article on the Trinadadian novelist Earl Lovelace is forthcoming in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. Currently, she is preparing a book manuscript on me…
The Indo-Mediterranean
We return to Derrida's 1974 Glas. It has probably never occurred to readers of Glas that it could have relevance for any kind of critique of empire - let alone a critique of empire via the Mediterranean. But Braudel's investigation of the difficult question of the `historical Mediterranean' is precisely the lens through which Glas's nascent critique of imperialism comes into focus. In this strange work, a `thinking' of passages emerges - disrupti…
Nations must be defended
This essay explores repressed hostility and punitive fantasies in the discourse of international health, using Katherine Mayo's Mother India (1927). Multiple tendencies in interwar thinking converge in Mayo's book, making it a veritable archive of major, minor and emergent forces, including those shaping the phenomenon of 'international health' post-Versailles. Mother India provides a unique opportunity to explore how progressive principles of in…
Cruel Husbandry
Long read in relation to public health and gender/sexual mores, Katherine Mayo's Mother India (1927) has rarely been viewed from an animal studies perspective. This article proposes that the animal, tethered to the woman question and to the figure of the Muslim, is integral to the book's imperialist apologetics. Investigations of physical cruelty to women and to animals build Mayo's case against Hindu nationalists' bid for self-rule. Highlighting…
Imperial Pharmakon
“The Quack Whom We Know”
Dying to Be a Lady Doctor
Malaria and Melancholia
Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Empire (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)