Subalternities in India and Latin America: Dalit Autobiographies and the Testimonio

ISBN-13: 9780367360986 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 216 str.

Sonya Surabhi Gupta

Opis

This volume presents a comparative exploration of Dalit autobiographical writing from India and Latin American testimonio as subaltern voices from the two regions of the Global South.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Towards a Conceptual and Definitional Framework  1. The Touch of the Other: Testimonio and Autobiographical Writing in India and Latin America  2. Some Notes on the Testimonio  3. The Testimonio in Latin America and India: Critical Contestations of the Collective Voice  4. In Defense of the ‘Subaltern’: Tracing the Concept Through/Across South Asia and Latin America Part II: Autobiographies in the Pluriverse of Dalit Writing  5. Autobiography and the Defacement of the Self: Siddalingaiah’s Ooru Keri  6. Muli’s Life History as a Dalit testimonio  7. Dalit Writing in Bangla: A Thematic Reading of Selected Narratives by Manoranjan Byapari and Manju Bala  8. Opening the Self, or the Other? On the Emergence of Bahujan Self-narratives on New Media  9. Studying Caste Up: Yashica Dutt’s Coming Out as Dalit Part III: Revisiting the Testimonio with Cross-Cultural Readings  10. At the Threshold of Literature: Testimonios after Menchú  11. The Small Voice of History: Revisiting Biography of a Runaway Slave  12. Resistance through Recipes: Locating Testimonial Aspects in Dalit and Chicana Food Narratives  13. Testimonio as a Repository of Subaltern Memory: Reading Women’s Narratives from Guatemala and India