1st Edition

Subaltern Women’s Narratives Strident Voices, Dissenting Bodies

Edited By Samraghni Bonnerjee Copyright 2021
252 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Subaltern Women's Narratives brings together intersectional feminist scholarship from the Humanities and Social Sciences and explores subaltern women’s narratives of resistance and subversion. Interdisciplinary in nature, the collection focuses on fictional texts, archival records, and ethnographic research to explore the lived experiences of subaltern women in different marginalised... Read more

1. Introduction: Subaltern Women’s Resistance

Samraghni Bonnerjee

PART I: EPISTEMOLOGICAL DISSENT

2. Narratives of Hidden Curriculum in Fiji

Elizabeth Yomantas

3. "Insulting the Modesty of a Woman?!": Examining the Language of Protest in Malawi

Asante Mtenje

4. Marginalised Women in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia: Novels as Fictional Intervention

Silvia Mayasari-Hoffert

5. Unhomed Knowledge: The Diasporic Family as Site of Subaltern Pedagogy

Mrinalini Greedharry

6. Searching in the Shadows: Aboriginal Women in Early Colonial New South Wales

Annemarie McLaren and Shino Konishi

7. Feminist voice(s) in South African Curriculum-Making and Dissemination

Bernice Badal

PART II: EMBODYING RESISTANCE

8. Touching the ‘Untouchable’: Depiction of Body and Sexuality in Select Dalit Women’s Autobiographies

Bidisha Pal

9. Rethinking Subalternity through Posthuman and Feminist Entanglements: Violence, Displacement, Exile and the Woman Subject in Contemporary Turkish Literature

Deniz Gündoğan İbrişim

10. Conjuring up a Shadow: A Case of Castration in a Colonial Archive

Niyati Misra-Shenoy

11. Voicing Sexual and Social Resistance in Seventeenth-Century Manila

Susan Broomhall

PART III: PRACTICING SUBVERSION

12. Survival and Resilience: Rohingya Refugee Women’s Narratives of Life, Loss, and Hope

Farhana Rahman

13. Translating into Other Identities: Bama and Her Writing

Nandita Ghosh

14. Thriving, Surviving and Hanging on: Domestic Workers in Harare Suburbs

Rudo Gaidzanwa

15. Restitution of Conjugal Rights and the Dissenting Female Body: The Rukhmabai Case

Kanika Sharma

16. Subaltern’s Resistance against Rape and Sexual Assault: An Aporia?

Sabujkoli Bandopadhyay

Biography

Samraghni Bonnerjee is Wellcome ISSF Fellow at the School of English, University of Leeds, and Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing at Wolfson College, Oxford. She was a Vice-Chancellor’s Scholar at the University of Sheffield, where she read for a PhD in English Literature.