Dalit Literatures in India (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Abraham, Joshil K.; Misrahi-Barak, Judith

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Produktbeschreibung

This book breaks new ground in the study of Dalit Literature, including in its corpus a range of genres such as novels, autobiographies, pamphlets, poetry, short stories as well as graphic novels. This second edition includes a new Introduction which takes stock of developments since 2015, and discusses how Dalit writing has come to play a major role in asserting marginal identities in contemporary Indian politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429952289
• Artikelnr.: 53238594

Autorenporträt

Joshil K. Abraham is Assistant Professor at G. B. Pant Govt. Engineering College, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha (GGSIP) University, New Delhi, India. Judith Misrahi-Barak is Associate Professor at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France. She teaches in the English Department.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the Second Edition: Taking stock, Updating, Moving forward
. Introduction: Dalit Literatures in India: in, out and beyond 1. Caste
differently 2. Caste and democracy: three paradoxes 3. The politics of
Dalit literature 4. 'No name is yours until you speak it': notes towards a
contrapuntal reading of Dalit literatures and postcolonial theory 5.
Language and translation in Dalit literature 6. Negotiations with faith:
conversion, identity and historical continuity 7. Resisting together
separately: representations of the Dalit-Muslim question in literature 8.
Creating their own gods: literature from the margins of Bengal 9. Caste and
the literary imagination in the context of Odia literature: a reading of
Akhila Nayak's Bheda 10. Questions of caste, commitment and freedom in
Gujarat, India: towards a reading of Praveen Gadhvi's The City of Dust and
Lust 11. Dalit intellectual poets of Punjab: 1690-1925 12. Life, history
and politics: Kallen Pokkudan's two autobiographies and the Dalit print
imaginations in Keralam 13. Dalits writing, Dalits speaking: on the
encounters between Dalit autobiographies and oral histories 14. A Life Less
Ordinary: the female subaltern and Dalit literature in contemporary India
15. Witnessing and experiencing Dalitness: in defence of Dalit women's
Testimonio 16. Literatures of suffering and resistance: Dalit women's
Testimonios and Black women slave narratives - a comparative study 17.
Polluting the page: Dalit women's bodies in autobiographical literature
18. Intimacy across caste and class boundaries in Arundhati Roy's The God
of Small Things 19. Caste as the baggage of the past: global modernity and
the cosmopolitan Dalit identity 20. Tense - past continuous: some critical
reflections on the art of Savi Sawarkar 21. The Indian graphic novel and
Dalit trauma: A Gardener in the Wasteland