Pramila Venkateswaran

Tamil Dalit Feminist Poetics

Resistance, Power, and Solidarity

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores Tamil Dalit feminist poets challenging Tamil literary tradition with poetics that reinvent language, form, and content. They present their radical poems shedding rich insight on the violence of patriarchal and caste supremacy on the Dalit body, while affirming Dalit spirituality, music, culture, nature, and democracy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781666921328
• ISBN-10: 1666921327
• Artikelnr.: 71230051

Autorenporträt

By Pramila Venkateswaran

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Tamil Dalit Feminist Poetry as Theory
Chapter Two: Radical Aesthetics in Tamil Dalit Feminist Poetry: Themes,
Forms, Language
Chapter Three: Challenging Brahminical Patriarchy: Asserting Dalit
Spirituality
Chapter Four: Sexuality in Tamil Dalit Feminist Poetry
Chapter Five: Land, Labor, and Love: Tamil Dalit Feminist Poets' Embodied
Expressions
Chapter Six: Contemporary Expressions of Dalit Feminist Oral Tradition:
Performing Songs, Rap, and Gaana
Chapter Seven: Love as Medicine: Dalit and Non-Dalit Feminist Solidarity
Bibliography
About the Author