Nalini Iyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 5423167 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nalini Iyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nalini |
| FAMILY NAME | Iyer |
| SIGNATURE | IYER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Seattle University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Rebel Face of Hope”
Freedom Inc
This essay is a response to Mukti Mangharam’s book Freedom Inc: Gendered Capitalism in New Indian Literature and Culture . The essay commends Mangharam’s intervention in reading the gender, caste, and class implications of neoliberalism embraced by the Indian government and people. Drawing upon Mangharam’s main arguments, this essay extends her analysis to examining the role of the Indian diaspora in promoting Freedom Inc’s narrative, the increas…
Twilight Prisoners
The Partition at 75
Culture, Language and Identity
Nearly two decades ago, the British Council in Chennai undertook a project with a scholarly collective to investigate how the West was represented in South Indian literatures. The result was the pu
Writing Human Rights
Guest Editor’s Column
A Note From the Guest Editors
Youth Voices and Diasporic Public Spheres
Using Nancy Fraser's analyses of transnational public spheres, this essay argues that South Asian Americans engage multiple public spheres that are transnational and polycentric. Literary works by South Asian American authors demonstrate how such diasporic public spheres work to facilitate social change. Despite numerous articles and books that discuss South Asian American literature, there are very few critical works that explore young adult fic…
Multiple Migrations
(2016). Multiple Migrations: Partition and South Asian Canadian Writing. South Asian Review: Vol. 37, 'New Directions in South Asian Canadian Literature and Culture', Guest edited by Chandrima Chakraborty and Robin E. Field, pp. 51-69
Introduction
In accepting the invitation from Professor Thomas O. Beebee in 2013 to edit a special issue of Comparative Literature Studies (CLS) on comparative South Asian literatures, we were fully aware of the challenges involved. Among other things, we were responding to a region that is comprised of seven nations with a population of over two billion people of diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds, who speak hundreds of languages that include nearly two d…
Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown , National Allegory, and Kashmiriyat
(2014). Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown, National Allegory, and Kashmiriyat. South Asian Review: Vol. 35, Salman Rushdie, pp. 125-137
No Place to Call Home
The Cosmopolitics of Translation
Twilight Prisoners
Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown , National Allegory, and Kashmiriyat
(2014). Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown, National Allegory, and Kashmiriyat. South Asian Review: Vol. 35, Salman Rushdie, pp. 125-137
The Cosmopolitics of Translation
No Place to Call Home
Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown , National Allegory, and Kashmiriyat
(2014). Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown, National Allegory, and Kashmiriyat. South Asian Review: Vol. 35, Salman Rushdie, pp. 125-137
A Note From the Guest Editors
Youth Voices and Diasporic Public Spheres
Using Nancy Fraser's analyses of transnational public spheres, this essay argues that South Asian Americans engage multiple public spheres that are transnational and polycentric. Literary works by South Asian American authors demonstrate how such diasporic public spheres work to facilitate social change. Despite numerous articles and books that discuss South Asian American literature, there are very few critical works that explore young adult fic…
Multiple Migrations
(2016). Multiple Migrations: Partition and South Asian Canadian Writing. South Asian Review: Vol. 37, 'New Directions in South Asian Canadian Literature and Culture', Guest edited by Chandrima Chakraborty and Robin E. Field, pp. 51-69
Introduction
In accepting the invitation from Professor Thomas O. Beebee in 2013 to edit a special issue of Comparative Literature Studies (CLS) on comparative South Asian literatures, we were fully aware of the challenges involved. Among other things, we were responding to a region that is comprised of seven nations with a population of over two billion people of diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds, who speak hundreds of languages that include nearly two d…
Guest Editor’s Column
Culture, Language and Identity
Nearly two decades ago, the British Council in Chennai undertook a project with a scholarly collective to investigate how the West was represented in South Indian literatures. The result was the pu
Writing Human Rights
Freedom Inc
This essay is a response to Mukti Mangharam’s book Freedom Inc: Gendered Capitalism in New Indian Literature and Culture . The essay commends Mangharam’s intervention in reading the gender, caste, and class implications of neoliberalism embraced by the Indian government and people. Drawing upon Mangharam’s main arguments, this essay extends her analysis to examining the role of the Indian diaspora in promoting Freedom Inc’s narrative, the increas…
Twilight Prisoners
The Partition at 75
The Rebel Face of Hope”
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · History (5 works) · History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)