Dalit Literatures in India -

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Editeur : Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/04/2018

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 360

Expédition : 435

Dimensions : 21.6 x 14.0 x 2.0

ISBN : 9781138593282

Résumé :

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.

Biographie:

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 Universit? Paul-Val?ry Montpellier 3, France. She teaches in the English Department.

Sommaire:

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