Ameena Meer

Born in Boston of Indian parents, and educated in Britain, Ameena Meer has published short stories in Flaming Spirit and New Writing, among others. She was managing editor of the New-York based art literary magazine Bomb. In her novel, Bombay Talkie, Sabah, a second-generation adolescent immigrant, visits India and is drawn into the unravelling lives of her movie-star uncle and family, and her American-born friend, Rani.

Writing & Newsclips

my children and divorce

Ameena Meer interviewed Rushdie just before the fatwa...(still looking for this interview online) Red Herring Rushdie, by Madalyn O'Hair. In June 1989 the British newspaper Mail printed what it said was the first interview with Rushdie after he had been forced into hiding by the Satanic Verses fatwa. In fact, Ameena Meer's interview with Rushdie had been conducted earlier, for her magazine Bomb.

Ameena Meer on James Nares' paintings.

Guess who's coming to dinner. Celebrating the holidays with an extended household. New York Times, Dec 2001.

Bibliography



Bombay Talkie
High Risk/Serpent Tail, New York. . (1994)

Sawnet Review by Arundhati Subramanyam

UCLA student review

Making room for a hybrid space: reconsidering second-generation ethnic identity. Sunaina Maira discusses Bombay Talkie among other books in Sansriti, Dec 1995.

South Asian Women authors
Sawnet Bookshelf
Sawnet