Haris Adhikari

Haris Adhikari

Haris C. Adhikari is an assistant professor of English and communication at Kathmandu University. Author of three books of poetry, poetic inquiries, and literary translation, Adhikari has widely contributed his creative and critical works to esteemed journals, both at home and abroad. Currently, he is working on Ghosts of Manipur, a place-and memory-based novel, and Wildflowers, a collection of Indigenous poetry from Nepali origins. He can be reached at harisadhikari@gmail.com.

Nepali Trishankus in America: An Intersectional Rhetorical Reading of The In-Betweeners

September 20, 2025
Abstract This review essay presents a critical reading of The In-Betweeners (2023), an arresting collection of stories by Nepali American author Khem K. Aryal. By drawing on Benkirane and Doucerain’s model of intersectionality, it covers the characters’ enmeshed and superimposed diasporic identities and emerging subjectivities, and contributes to critical study of different dimensions in Nepali diasporas in America, Nepali diasporic

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