Dalit literatures in India : with a new introduction / edited by Joshil K. Abraham and Judith Misrahi-Barak.

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TextPublisher: New Delhi : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016Distributor: New Delhi, India : Exclusively distributed by Manohar Publishers & Distributors Edition: First South Asia editionDescription: xv, 359 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

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9781138346529 (paperback)

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DDC classification:

23 891.4 DAL 012499

Contents:

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.

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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.

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