Dalit Literature in India / edited by Joshil K. Abraham and Judith Misrahi-Barak.

Contributor Abraham, Joshil K. editor

Imprint:New Delhi, India : Routledge, c2016.

Descriptionxv, 349 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Note: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.?o 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

Note: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

Note: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

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p.339-349).

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