Dalit Literatures in India

Joshil K. Abraham, Judith Misrahi-Barak (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

360 Seiten

2018 | 2nd edition
Routledge India (Verlag)
978-1-138-59328-2 (ISBN)

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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 and graphic novels. With contributions from major scholars in the field, alongside 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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	14.07.2018
Zusatzinfo	6 Halftones, black and white; 6 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-59328-1 / 1138593281
ISBN-13	978-1-138-59328-2 / 9781138593282
Zustand	Neuware