Dalit Text: Aesthetics and Politics Re-Imagined

ISBN-13: 9781138494572 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 238 str.

Judith Misrahi Barak; K. Satyanarayana; Nicole Thiara

Opis

Companion to the much-acclaimed Dalit Literatures in India, this book examines questions of aesthetics and literary representation in a wide range of Dalit literary texts. It looks at how Dalit literature invokes the rich and complex legacy of oral, folk and performative traditions of communities.

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1. Introduction: Aesthetics and Politics Re-Imagined Judith Misrahi-Barak, K. Satyanarayana and Nicole Thiara Part I Speaking Out 2. Manoranjan Byapari Sipra Mukherjee 3. Kalyani Thakur Charal Jayati Gupta 4. Cho. Dharman R. Azhagarasan and R. Arul 5. Des Raj Kali Rajkumar Hans Part II Writing from Within: Genre and Gender 6. Author’s Notes or Revisions? The Politics of Form in P. Sivakami’s Two Novels Kanak Yadav 7. Of Subjecthood and Form: On Reading Two Dalit Short Stories from Gujarat, India Santosh Dash 8 Janu and Saleena Narrating Life: Subjects and Spaces Carmel Christy K. J. 9 Mother as Fucked: Reimagining Dalit Female Sexuality in Sahil Parmar’s Poetry Gopika Jadeja 10 A Pox on Your House: Exploring Caste and Gender in Tulsi Ram’s Murdahiya Shivani Kapoor Part III Reading Across 11 Dalit Literature in Translation: A Symptomatic Reading of Sharankumar Limbale’s Akkarmashi in English Translation Arun Prabha Mukherjee 12 Translating Dalit Literature: Redrawing the Map of Cultural Politics Maya Pandit Part IV Looking Through 13 Notes on Questions of Dalit Art Deeptha Achar 14 (Re-)imaging Caste in Graphic Novels: A Study of A Gardener in the Wasteland and Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability Ruchika Bhatia and Devika Mehra 15 Dalits and the Spectacle of Victimhood in Telugu Cinema Chandra Sekhar