Dalit text : aesthetics and politics re-imagined / edited by Judith Misrahi-Barak, K. Satyanarayana and Nicole Thiara.
"This book, companion to the much-acclaimed Dalit Literatures in India, examines questions of aesthetics and literary representation in a wide range of Dalit literary texts. It looks at how Dalit literature, born from the struggle against social and political injustice, invokes the rich and complex...
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| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
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2020.
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| Physical Description: | xxiv, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Contents:
- Introduction : aesthetics or politics? / Judith Misrahi-Barak, K. Satyanarayana and Nicole Thiara
- A short introduction to Manoranjan Byapari by Sipra Mukherjee : an interview with Bengali Dalit writer Manoranjan Byapari : followed by : Manoranjan Byapari : choosing to write anger
- A short introduction to Kalyani Thakur Charal by Jayati Gupta : an interview with Bengali Dalit writer Kalyani Thakur Charal : followed by : the aesthetics of Dalit literature : a case study
- A short introduction to Cho. Dharman : "we need to create a new language in writing" : an interview of Cho. Dharman, by R. Azhagarasan and Arul : followed by : Cho. Dharman : caste and "karisal" literature in Tamil Nadu, by Kiran Keshavamurthy
- A short introduction to Des Raj Kali by Rajkumar Hans : an interview with Des Raj Kali : followed by : Des Raj Kali's Shanti parav : experimental Punjabi Dalit fiction
- Author's notes or revisions? the politics of form in P. Sivakami's two novels / Kanak Yadav
- Of subjecthood and form : on reading two Dalit short stories from Gujarat, India / Santosh Dash
- Janu and Saleena narrating life : subjects and spaces / Carmel Christy K. J
- Mother as fucked : re-imagining dalit female sexuality in Sahil Parmar's poetry / Gopika Jadeja
- A pox upon your house : exploring caste and gender in Tulsi Ram's Murdahiya / Shivani Kapoor
- Dalit literature in translation : a symptomatic reading of Sharankumar Limbale's Akkarmashi in English translation / Arun Prabha Mukherjee
- Translating Dalit literature : re-drawing the map of cultural politics / Maya Pandit-Narkar
- Notes on questions of Dalit art / Deeptha Achar
- (Re-)imaging caste in graphic novels : a study of A gardener in the wasteland and Bhimayana : experiences of untouchability / Ruchika Bhatia and Devika Mehra
- Dalits and the spectacle of victimhood in Telugu cinema / Chandra Sekhar.