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Nalini Iyer

@niyerseattle.bsky.social
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Academic, Postcolonial and South Asian Studies, Editor-in-Chief South Asian Review, dog mom. All views personal

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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Samina Najmi’s essays “unpack the precarity and fluidity of terms like ‘South Asian American’ and ‘Pakistani’ as she traces her circular and layered history as a migrant.” Nalini Iyer reviews this debut collection. @niyerseattle.bsky.social worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/may/sin...
The cover of Sing Me a Circle by Samina Najmi
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Nalini Iyer @niyerseattle.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Please consider submitting to this CFP think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
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Global South Literature in and out of South Asia
Explore South Asia as the subject of a new type of cultural internationalism.
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
@niyerseattle.bsky.social and I co-edited a forum on "Palestine and South Asia" for South Asian Review with contributions by Tithi Bhattacharya, Ather Zia, Asma Abbas and Alia Yunis. Here's our intro: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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“The Rebel Face of Hope”: Palestine and South Asia
Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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ICE Off Campus! College Students and Workers Must Unite Against Right-Wing Attacks - Left Voice
The Trump administration’s first week has been filled with attacks, especially on immigrants. College students and higher education workers must unite to fight back.
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Nalini Iyer @niyerseattle.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Announcing the publication of In the Shadow of Partition which was originally a special issue of South Asian Review that I co-edited with Debali Mookerjea-Leonard. www.routledge.com/In-the-Shado...
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In the Shadow of Partition: Seventy-Five Years and Beyond
This book brings together conversations about the Partition and its haunting residues in the present as represented in literary, visual, oral, and material cultures of the subcontinent and beyond. The...
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Review 17: Postmemory and the Partition of India by Shuchi Kapila (reviewer Aiswarya Sanath): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Postmemory and the Partition of India: Learning to Remember
Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Review 16: Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence by Tithi Bhattacharyya (reviewer: Sreyashi Ray): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal
Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Amit Baishya @amitbaishya.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Review 14 (for 2024): Rebuilding Community by Shenila Khoja-Moolji. Reviewer:Tahsina Nasir: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality
Published in South Asian Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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