List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Writing the Human
Swatie
Part I: Histories
1. The Right to Write: Ambedkar’s Literary Criticism of any Political Theology
Soumyabrata Choudhury
2. Narrating the Slave-Caste: Protestant anxieties and textual productions in nineteenth century Travancore
Jonathan Koshy Varghese
3. Saadat Hasan Manto’s Language Games: The paradox of partition and the claims of personhood
Swatie
4. The Poetics of Suffering: Subjecthood and Satire in Raag Darbari
Sneha Sharma
Part II: Geographies
5. Beyond the Universal Declaration: Provincializing ‘Global’ Human Rights through Stories from India’s North-East
Subhayu Bhattacharjee and Sinor Lama
6. Beyond Bare Life: Literary Conceptions of Kashmiri Personhood
Nida and Saira Tak
Part III: Social Processes
7. A Call for Dalit Human Rights in Contemporary India through Yashica Dutt’s Coming Out as Dalit
Bianca Cherechés
8. Human Rights and the Vulnerability of Caste in Select Indian Films
Navin Sharma and Priyanka Tripathi
9. Human Rights, Journalism, and the Politics of Representation: A study of Writing with Fire
Agnitra Ghosh
10. Born, Dying and Reborn: The Transformations of Literary Community
Ruth Vanita
Contributor Bios
Index
Biography
Swatie is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. Her areas of research interest include human rights and literature, literary and critical theory, trauma, war and violence studies, gender and feminism, twenty-first-century American studies, among others. She is an alumna of Delhi University, India, from where she obtained her PhD, and Dartmouth College’s Futures of American Studies Institute, USA.
