This book aims to foster a Dalit feminist discourse by reading Dalit writings. The contributors analyse Dalit texts to examine how Dalit women subjectivities have emerged over the years.
The subject matter also explores the Dalit politics of gender, society, and caste.
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.
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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 Womens Identity in A Dalit Woman in
the Land of Goddesses
9. Dalit Womens Poetry: Manifesto of Resistance
10. Of Sisters and Mothers: Tracing Dalit Women in S. Josephs Poetry
Part III: Defining Dalit Womens Aesthetics in Dalit Writings
11. The Representation of Women in the Fiction of Jatin Bala
12. Twice Cursed Lives: Revisiting Dalit Womens Lives of Oppression and
Subjugation Through the Narratives of She-Dalits
13. Negotiating Intersectionality and Transnational Cultural Space in Yashica
Dutts Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir
14. Caste, Conversion and Conflict in Bamas Fiction
15. The Multiple Sufferings of Women in Bamas Karukku
Conclusion: Hatching Lanes in Dalit Feminist Discourse
Notes on Contributors
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.
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