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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Introduction to the second edition: taking stock, updating, moving forward; Introduction to the first edition: 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 |
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7 Resisting together separately: representations of the Dalit-Muslim question in literature8 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 imaginationsin Keralam |
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13 Dalits writing, Dalits speaking: on the encounters between Dalit autobiographies and oral histories14 A Life Less Ordinary: the female subaltern and Dalit literature in contemporary India; 15 Witnessing and experiencing Dalitness: in defence of Dalit women's Testimonios; 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 |
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19 Caste as the baggage of the past: global modernity and the cosmopolitan Dalit identity20 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; Select bibliography |
| Summary |
"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. With contributions from major scholars in the field and budding ones, the book critically examines Dalit literary production and theory. It also initiates a dialogue between Dalit writing and Western literary theory. This second edition includes a new Introduction which takes stock of developments since 2015. It discusses how Dalit writing has come to play a major role in asserting marginal identities in contemporary Indian politics while moving towards establishing a more radical voice of dissent and protest. Lucid, accessible yet rigorous in its analysis, this book will be indispensable for scholars and researchers of Dalit studies, social exclusion studies, Indian writing, literature and literary theory, politics, sociology, social anthropology and cultural studies."--Provided by publisher |
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Literature.
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Oriental literature.
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Equality.
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Literature
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Equality
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Literature
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Oriental literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Abraham, Joshil K., editor
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Misrahi-Barak, Judith, editor
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| ISBN |
9780429489563 |
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0429489560 |
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