Talk:Meena Alexander
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Meena Alexander was a Professor of English at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center as of 2018[1]. According to her university profile, her interest areas were poetry, transnational and Asian American poetics, gender, migration and memory.
She has published no books, papers, or research pertaining to Hindus, the Indus Civilization, or caste.
In 2016, he signed a letter endorsing a letter submitted by the South Asia Faculty Group[2][3] where it addressed the State Board of Education, California Department of Education, dated May 17, 2016. In this letter they requested removing the word India from textbooks. In addition, they falsely[4] stated:
- "There is no established connection between Hinduism and the Indus Civilization."
- "It is inappropriate to remove mention of the connection of caste to Hinduism."
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- Alexander, Meena. Illiterate Heart. Triquarterly, 2002.
- Alexander, Meena. Raw Silk. Triquarterly, 2004.
- Alexander, Meena. Quickly Changing River. Triquarterly, 2008.
- Alexander, Meena, editor. Indian Love Poems. Everyman’s Library, 2005.
- Alexander, Meena. Fault Lines. Feminist Press, 1993. Revised edition, 2003.
- Alexander, Meena. Nampally Road. Mercury House, 1991.
- Alexander, Meena. Manhattan Music. Mercury House, 1997.
- Alexander, Meena. The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience. South End Press, 1996.
- Alexander, Meena. Women in Romanticism: Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Mary Shelley. Rowman & Littlefield, 1989.
- Alexander, Meena. Poetics of Dislocation. University of Michigan Press, 2009.
References[edit]
- ↑ Meena Alexander University Profile accessed 19 April, 2024
- ↑ 5-17 Prof. S. Shankar et al support letter
- ↑ 5-17 Kamala Visweswaran South Asian Faculty Group
- ↑ Gupta, S. P. 'The Dawn of Civilization.' In History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization: Volume I: Part 1, edited by G. C. Pandey and D. P. Chattopadhyaya. New Delhi: Centre for Studies in Civilizations, 1999.