1st Edition
Dalit Feminist Discourse Voices in Dalit Writings
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
Anne Placid and Binu K.D.
2. Listen to my Body!
Ashutosh K. Prabhakar
3. Dalit Feminist Narratives: Mapping the Aesthetics of Minor Literature
Deepthi Menon
4. Documenting Dalit Female Voices
Pratibha Singh
5. We ‘Also’ Made History: Dalit Feminist Movement and Identity Politics
Shibangi Dash
6. Dalits, Women and National Identity
Animesh Manna
Part II: Defining Women in Dalit Poetry and Its Praxis
7. Bengali Dalit Poetry by Kalyani Thakur Charal: Re-Visiting Dalit Feminism
Shipra Gorai
8. Dalit Among Dalits: An Exploration of Women’s Identity in A Dalit Woman in the Land of Goddesses
Pallavi Dutta
9. Dalit Women’s Poetry: Manifesto of Resistance
Shuvani Sengupta
10. Of Sisters and Mothers: Tracing Dalit Women in S. Joseph’s Poetry
Neelima B
Part III: Defining Dalit Women’s Aesthetics in Dalit Writings
11. The Representation of Women in the Fiction of Jatin Bala
Brati Biswas
12. Twice Cursed Lives: Revisiting Dalit Women’s Lives of Oppression and Subjugation Through the Narratives of ‘She-Dalits’
Debdatta Chakraborty
13. Negotiating Intersectionality and Transnational Cultural Space in Yashica Dutt’s Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir
Lekshmi R. Nair
14. Caste, Conversion and Conflict in Bama’s Fiction
Arunabha Bose
15. The Multiple Sufferings of Women in Bama’s Karukku
Yanpolumi M. Sangma
Conclusion: Hatching Lanes in Dalit Feminist Discourse
Notes on Contributors
Biography
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.
