Dalit Feminist Discourse

Voices in Dalit Writings
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-01580-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Charu Arya and Nabanita Deka’s edited book, Dalit Feminist Discourse: Voices in Dalit Writings documents Dalit voices from different regions and languages of India. Divided into three sections, the aim of this book is to foster a Dalit feminist discourse by reading Dalit writings. The contributors of the anthology in their respective chapters pick up different Dalit texts written by both Dalit men and women to analyse how Dalit women subjectivities have emerged over the years.

The subject matter in this book covers the theories and history of Dalit feminism, poetry and writings by Dalit women, and also explores the politics of gender, society, and caste from the perspective of this section.

Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan or Bhutan)

Zielgruppe

Academic and General

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arya, Charu

Deka, Nabanita

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Raj Kumar

Acknowledgement

Introduction by Charu Arya and Nabanita Deka

Part I: Mapping Dalit Theory and Feminism

1. Reconsidering Gendered Subalternity: Politics and Aesthetics of Dalit Feminist Narratives

2. Listen to my Body!

3. Dalit Feminist Narratives: Mapping the Aesthetics of Minor Literature

4. Documenting Dalit Female Voices

5. We ‘Also’ Made History: Dalit Feminist Movement and Identity Politics

6. Dalits, Women and National Identity

Part II: Defining Women in Dalit Poetry and Its Praxis

7. Bengali Dalit Poetry by Kalyani Thakur Charal: Re-Visiting Dalit Feminism

8. Dalit Among Dalits: An Exploration of Women’s Identity in A Dalit Woman in the Land of Goddesses

9. Dalit Women’s Poetry: Manifesto of Resistance

10. Of Sisters and Mothers: Tracing Dalit Women in S. Joseph’s Poetry

Part III: Defining Dalit Women’s Aesthetics in Dalit Writings

11. The Representation of Women in the Fiction of Jatin Bala

12. Twice Cursed Lives: Revisiting Dalit Women’s Lives of Oppression and Subjugation Through the Narratives of ‘She-Dalits’

13. Negotiating Intersectionality and Transnational Cultural Space in Yashica Dutt’s Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

14. Caste, Conversion and Conflict in Bama’s Fiction

15. The Multiple Sufferings of Women in Bama’s Karukku

Conclusion: Hatching Lanes in Dalit Feminist Discourse

Notes on Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Charu Arya is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Maharaja Agrasen College, University of Delhi, India.
Nabanita Deka is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Shyam Lal College (M), University of Delhi, India.