TY - BOOK AU - Abraham,Joshil K. AU - Misrahi-Barak,Judith TI - Dalit literatures in India: with a new introduction SN - 9781138346529 (paperback) U1 - 891.4 DAL 23 PY - 2016/// CY - New Delhi PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group KW - Indic literature KW - Dalit authors KW - History and criticism KW - Dalits in literature KW - Marginality, Social, in literature KW - Social change in literature N1 - 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. N2 - Contributed articles ER -