{"product_id":"dalit-text-9781138494572","title":"Dalit Text","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book, companion to the much-acclaimed \u003ci\u003eDalit Literatures in India\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 legacy of oral, folk and performative traditions of marginalised voices. The essays and interviews systematically explore a range of literary forms, from autobiographies, memoirs and other testimonial narratives, to poems, novels or short stories, foregrounding the diversity of Dalit creation. Showcasing the interplay between the aesthetic and political for a genre of writing that has change' as its goal, the volume aims to make Dalit writing more accessible to a wider public, for the Dalit voices to be heard and understood. The volume also shows how the genre has revolutionised the concept of what literature is supposed to mean and define. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEffervescent first-person accounts,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"This book makes a critically important contribution to the growing, but still impoverished, field of Dalit literary studies in two key ways. First, the editors and contributors to \u003ci\u003eDalit Text\u003c\/i\u003e refuse an engagement with Dalit literature’s politics \u003ci\u003ein lieu of\u003c\/i\u003e its aesthetics, and in so doing, rightfully reject the all-too-common sociological approach to Dalit literature that blinds us to the meaningful employment of innovative narrative strategies that has been at the core of Dalit literary production from its earliest stages. Second, the book makes a commitment to highlighting several new voices of Dalit literature and literary criticism, voices that will emerge for the first time in an edited volume that will have extensive transnational reach. Such a political commitment to representing a diversity of voices – in several different languages – from within Dalit literary and scholarly circles in India and its diaspora will play a critical role in contributing to the growth and sophistication of the field of Dalit literary studies. This volume is desperately needed, and most welcome.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003ci\u003eLaura Brueck, Associate Professor of South Asian Languages and Cultures, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This contribution to the extant body of scholarship on Dalits, now a recognized area of academic attention world-wide, forcefully intensifies the field and begins to widen it. Necessary reading for anyone interested in justice in its various forms. This book goes a long way to study newer aspects of Dalit studies.\"\u003ci\u003e— Aniket Jaaware, Professor, English Department, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi, India\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A profound inquiry into the relation between the category ‘Dalit’ on the one hand and artistic and literary practice on the other, this landmark volume brings together writers, critics and translators to engage the force of Dalit writing in several Indian languages. The result of an international collaboration, this volume crucially brings questions of translation and universalization to the very untranslatability of the term ‘Dalit.’\" —- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSimona Sawhney, Associate Professor, Humanities \u0026amp; Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"This book makes a critically important contribution to the growing, but still impoverished, field of Dalit literary studies in two key ways. First, the editors and contributors to \u003ci\u003eDalit Text\u003c\/i\u003e refuse an engagement with Dalit literature’s politics \u003ci\u003ein lieu of\u003c\/i\u003e its aesthetics, and in so doing, rightfully reject the all-too-common sociological approach to Dalit literature that blinds us to the meaningful employment of innovative narrative strategies that has been at the core of Dalit literary production from its earliest stages. Second, the book makes a commitment to highlighting several new voices of Dalit literature and literary criticism, voices that will emerge for the first time in an edited volume that will have extensive transnational reach. Such a political commitment to representing a diversity of voices – in several different languages – from within Dalit literary and scholarly circles in India and its diaspora will play a critical role in contributing to the growth and sophistication of the field of Dalit literary studies. This volume is desperately needed, and most welcome.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003ci\u003eLaura Brueck, Associate Professor of South Asian Languages and Cultures, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This contribution to the extant body of scholarship on Dalits, now a recognized area of academic attention world-wide, forcefully intensifies the field and begins to widen it. Necessary reading for anyone interested in justice in its various forms. This book goes a long way to study newer aspects of Dalit studies.\"\u003ci\u003e— Aniket Jaaware, Professor, English Department, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi, India\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A profound inquiry into the relation between the category ‘Dalit’ on the one hand and artistic and literary practice on the other, this landmark volume brings together writers, critics and translators to engage the force of Dalit writing in several Indian languages. The result of an international collaboration, this volume crucially brings questions of translation and universalization to the very untranslatability of the term ‘Dalit.’\" —- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSimona Sawhney, Associate Professor, Humanities \u0026amp; Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Introduction: Aesthetics and Politics Re-Imagined\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eJudith Misrahi-Barak, K. Satyanarayana and Nicole Thiara\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I \u003c\/b\u003eSpeaking Out 2. Manoranjan Byapari \u003ci\u003eSipra Mukherjee\u003c\/i\u003e 3. Kalyani Thakur Charal \u003ci\u003eJayati Gupta\u003c\/i\u003e 4. Cho. Dharman\u003ci\u003e R. Azhagarasan and R. Arul\u003c\/i\u003e 5. Des Raj Kali \u003cem\u003eRajkumar Hans \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II\u003c\/b\u003e Writing from Within: Genre and Gender 6. \u003cem\u003eAuthor’s Notes \u003c\/em\u003eor Revisions? The Politics of Form in P. Sivakami’s Two Novels \u003ci\u003eKanak Yadav\u003c\/i\u003e 7. Of Subjecthood and Form: On Reading Two Dalit Short Stories from Gujarat, India \u003ci\u003eSantosh Dash \u003c\/i\u003e8 Janu and Saleena Narrating Life: Subjects and Spaces \u003ci\u003eCarmel Christy K. J. \u003c\/i\u003e9 Mother as Fucked: Reimagining Dalit Female Sexuality in Sahil Parmar’s Poetry \u003ci\u003eGopika Jadeja \u003c\/i\u003e10 A Pox on Your House: Exploring Caste and Gender in Tulsi Ram’s \u003ci\u003eMurdahiya \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eShivani Kapoor \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart III \u003c\/strong\u003eReading Across 11 Dalit Literature in Translation: A Symptomatic Reading of Sharankumar Limbale’s \u003ci\u003eAkkarmashi \u003c\/i\u003ein English Translation \u003cem\u003eArun Prabha Mukherjee \u003c\/em\u003e12 Translating Dalit Literature: Redrawing the Map of Cultural Politics \u003ci\u003eMaya Pandit \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart IV\u003c\/strong\u003e Looking Through 13 Notes on Questions of Dalit Art \u003ci\u003eDeeptha Achar \u003c\/i\u003e14 (Re-)imaging Caste in Graphic Novels: A Study of \u003ci\u003eA Gardener in the Wasteland \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003cem\u003eBhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability Ruchika Bhatia \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eand\u003c\/em\u003e \u003ci\u003eDevika Mehra \u003c\/i\u003e15 Dalits and the Spectacle of Victimhood in Telugu Cinema \u003ci\u003eChandra Sekhar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407222251863,"sku":"9781138494572","price":128.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138494572.jpg?v=1730498622","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dalit-text-9781138494572","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}