Dalit literatures in India :

Dalit literatures in India : with a new introduction / edited by Joshil K. Abraham and Judith Misrahi-Barak. - First South Asia edition. - xv, 359 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

1.Caste differently /​ G. N. Devy
2.Caste and democracy: three paradoxes /​ M.S.S. Pandian
3.The politics of Dalit literature /​ Ravi Shankar Kumar
4.`No name is yours until you speak it': notes towards a contrapuntal reading of Dalit literatures and postcolonial theory /​ Laetitia Zecchini
5.Language and translation in Dalit literature /​ Nalini Pai
6.Negotiations with faith: conversion, identity and historical continuity /​ Jasbir Jain
7.Resisting together separately: representations of the Dalit-Muslim question in literature /​ Nida Sajid
8.Creating their own gods: literature from the margins of Bengal /​ Sipra Mukherjee
9.Caste and the literary imagination in the context of Odia literature: a reading of Akhila Nayak's Bheda /​ Raj Kumar
10.Questions of caste, commitment and freedom in Gujarat, India: towards a reading of Praveen Gadhvi's The City of Dust and Lust /​ Santosh Dash
11.Dalit intellectual poets of Punjab: 1690-1925 /​ Raj Kumar Hans
12.Life, history and politics: Kallen Pokkudan's two autobiographies and the Dalit print imaginations in Keralam /​ Ranjith Thankappan
13.Dalits writing, Dalits speaking: on the encounters between Dalit autobiographies and oral histories /​ Alexandra De Heering
14.A Life Less Ordinary: the female subaltern and Dalit literature in contemporary India /​ Martine Van Woerkens
15.Witnessing and experiencing Dalitness: in defence of Dalit women's Testimonios /​ Sara Sindhu Thomas
16.Literatures of suffering and resistance: Dalit women's Testimonios and Black women slave narratives
- a comparative study /​ Arpita Chattaraj Mukhopadhyay
17.Polluting the page: Dalit women's bodies in autobiographical literature /​ Carolyn Hibbs
18.Intimacy across caste and class boundaries in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things /​ Maryam Mirza
19.Caste as the baggage of the past: global modernity and the cosmopolitan Dalit identity /​ K. Satyanarayana
20.Tense - past continuous: some critical reflections on the art of Savi Sawarkar /​ Santhosh Sadanandan
21.The Indian graphic novel and Dalit trauma: A Gardener in the Wasteland /​ Pramod K. Nayar.

Contributed articles.

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Indic literature--Dalit authors--History and criticism.
Dalits in literature.
Marginality, Social, in literature.
Social change in literature.

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