Alexander, Meena
About Meena Alexander
Reviews
Peeradina, Saleem. "Atmospheric Embroidery." World Literature Today, vol. 90, no.1, 2016
Mohanty, Sachidananda. "Atmospheric Embroidery." The Hindu, 19 Dec. 2015
Sen, Sudeep. "Illiterate Heart." The Hindu, 5 Dec. 2004
Natarajan, Nalini. "Fault Lines." Melus, vol. 20, no. 1, 1995
Interviews
Green, Timothy. "Conversation between Meena Alexander and Timothy Green." Rattle, vol. 22, no. 4, 2016
May, Joseph. "Indian Ocean Flows: May Joseph Speaks with Meena Alexander." Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, vol. 10, no. 2, 2010
Shankar, Lavina. "Re-Visioning Memoirs Old and New: A Conversation with Meena Alexander." Meridians, vol. 8, no. 2, 2008
Maxey, Ruth. "An Interview with Meena Alexander." Kenyon Review, vol. 28, no. 1, 2006
Phukan, Atreyee. "A Touch for Language: An Interview with Meena Alexander." Exit 9, no. 4, 2002
Basu, Lopamudra. "The Poet in the Public Sphere." Social Text, vol. 20, no. 3, 2002
Bahri, Deepika, and Mary Vasudeva. "Observing Ourselves among Others: Interview with Meena Alexander." Between the Lines: South Asians and Postcoloniality, Bahri and Vasudeva (eds.), 1996
Tharu, Susi. "A Conversation with Meena Alexander." Chandrabhaga, no. 7, 1982
Criticism
Sabo, Oana. "Creativity and Place: Meena Alexander's Poetics of Migration." Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, vol. 18, no. 1, 2016
Han, Stephanie. "Meena Alexander and American Identity." Contemporary Women's Writing, vol. 8, no. 3, 2014
Kuo, Hsin-Ju. "Revisiting Adultery: The Bodies of Diasporic Female Adulterers in South Asian Immigrant Narratives." Contemporary Women's Writing, vol. 8, no. 2, 2014
Davé, Shilpa. "Passage to Manhattan: Critical Essays on Meena Alexander." South Asian Diaspora, vol. 3, no. 2, 2011
Basu, Lopamudra, Cynthia Leenerts, and Amritjit Singh. Passage to Manhattan: Critical Essays on Meena Alexander, Basu and Leenerts (eds.), 2009
Iyer, Nalini, and Bonnie Zare (eds.). Other Tongues: Rethinking the Language Debates in India, 2009
Herrero, M. Dolores. "Meena Alexander's Transgressive/Diasporic Female Characters: Healing Wounds and Fracturing the Iconic Feminine and the Language of the Colonizer." South Asian Review, vol. 28, no. 2, 2007
Dutt-Ballerstadt, Reshmi. "Forging States of Belonging: Migrant Memory, Nation and Subjectivity in Meena Alexander's Memoir Fault Lines." South Asian Review, vol. 27, no. 2, 2006
Gairola, Rahul Krishna. "Western Experiences: Education and 'Third World Women' in the Fiction of Tsitsi Dangarembga and Meena Alexander." Jouvert, vol. 4, no. 2, 2000
Works
Autobiography/Life Writings
Fault Lines (1993)
Novels
Manhattan Music (1997)
Nampally Road (1991)
Poetry Collections
Atmospheric Embroidery (2018)
In Praise of Fragments (2017)
Dreaming in Shimla (2015)
Birthplace with Buried Stones (2013)
Shimla (2012)
Al-Mutanabbi Street Anthology (2012)
Otto Poesie (2011)
Quickly Changing River (2008)
Indian Love Poems (2005)
Raw Silk (2004)
Illiterate Heart (2002)
River and Bridge (1995)
Night-Scene: The Garden (1992)
The Storm: A Poem in Five Parts (1989)
House of a Thousand Doors (1988)
Stone Roots (1980)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
Name Me a Word (2018)
"On Writing Death of a Young Dalit." World Literature Today, vol. 90, no. 6, 2016
"What Use Is Poetry?" World Literature Today, vol. 87, no. 5, 2013
"Poetics of Dislocation: Trauma, Language, Memory." The Splintered Glass: Facets of Trauma in the Post-Colony and Beyond, Herrero and Baelo-Allué (eds.), 2011
"Diasporic Writing." Hitting Critical Mass, vol. 6, no. 2, 2000
"The Shock of Arrival: Reflection on Postcolonial Experience." MELUS, vol. 24, no. 4, 1999
"Child Vanishing." Weber, vol. 15.1, 1998
Women in Romanticism (1989)
The Poetic Self: Towards a Phenomenology of Romanticism (1979)
Audio and Audiovisual Material
Meena Alexander Reads from Atmospheric Embroidery. YouTube, 15 Nov. 2018
Meena Alexander Reads from Quickly Changing River. YouTube, 29 Nov. 2008
Meena Alexander Reads from Illiterate Heart and Raw Silk. YouTube, 11 Jun. 2004