Understanding Marginality: Cultural and Literary Perspectives

Contents: Part 1: Gender and Sexuality. 1. Questioning the Gender: A Discourse on Article 377/Monika Gupta. 2. If Law be the Food of ‘Love’: The 2018 Verdict on Section 377/Niladri R. Chatterjee. 3. Queer Aesthetics of the Literary Art (2007) and the Cinematic Art (2017) of Call Me by Your Name/Himadri Roy. 4. Marginal Bodies, Mutilated Desires: Gender and Class in Rituparno Ghosh’s Queer Trilogy/Pranta Pratik Patnaik. 5. Most People are Other People: Interrogating Marginal Identity and Violence in Felanee/Devika Rani Hazarika. 6. Everyday Tactics: Analysing the East Bengali Migrant Working Women’s Everyday Practices in the Post-Partitioned Calcutta/Mousumi Mandal. 7 Painting the Streets of Afghanistan: Depiction of War and Women through Graffiti/Ved Prakash.  Part 2: Speaking Art. 8. The Resistance of the Subaltern: Postcolonial Readings of the Cinematic Versions of Satyajit Ray’s Goopy Gayen Bagha Bayen and Hirok Rajar Deshe/Satyajit Roy. 9. Rima Das’s Village Rockstars and Linguistic Politics of the Assamese Identity/Violina Borah. 10. Muslims in Bollywood: Dilution of Issues in the Process of ‘Otherness’/Amit Kumar. 11. Locating Trauma in Visual Narratives of Erika Berg’s Forced to Flee: Visual Stories by Refugee Youth from Burma/Irona Bhaduri. 12. Museums and Politics of Representing Indigenous Naga Culture/Onshangla Zimik. 13. Understanding the Duplicitous Singularities of Margins through Musical Explorations: A Look at Coke Studio Explorer/Dipannita Ghosh. 14. Reflecting Pain of Marginal Voices through Bidesiya Folk Songs/Neha Singh and Anshuman Rana. Part 3: Colour and Caste. 15. Dalit Youth and the Narratives of Resistance/Chandraprabha Mahawar and Neha Arora. 16. Performing Exclusion, Pretending Assimilation: A Study of Dalit-Bahujan Student Politics in India/Akash Raha. 17. Dalit Assertion amongst Savarna Reality in Urban India/Sujay Thakur. 18. Mob Lynching in India and Everyday Lives of Women: Questions of Marginalization and Representations/Sanjukta Basu. 19. Challenging the Marginality in the Poems of Selected African American and African Caribbean Women Poets/Sukanta Roy. 20. The Colour Black: Exclusion of a Particular Section of Human ‘Race’/Sucheta. Part 4: Disability, Dislocation and Incarceration. 21. The Marginalized: ‘Disability Studies’ and Nazi Germany/Pinaki Roy. 22. Moving Beyond the Confines of Disability/Suman Rathore and Supriya Agarwal. 23. Representing Kashmiri Pandits: Interrogating the Idea of a Marginal/Minority Community in Recent Kashmiri Pandit Narratives/Somjyoti Mridha. 24. Identity Formation and Marginalization of the Animal: An Ecocritical Study of Two Ecopoets/Krishnendu Bera. 25. F(i/a) ctionalized Reality of Margins: A Meta-Versus Reading of Select Literary Texts Through/Readjusting ‘Jeanian’ Prognosis/Nipan Nath.

The book aims to address as well as understand the dominion of marginality from multiple perspectives as well as locations. At present, when the control and surveillance of the common mass by the dominant and powerful groups is increasing, it becomes essential to notice the issues and assaults that are faced by the ones who are powerless. Today, when the space of open and honest dialogue is shrinking by the day, it becomes imperative to take note of avenues that are available to the marginal groups to express their concerns.

The edited anthology is an attempt to foreground the violence and violation faced by the minorities across spectrums. The compiled book covers issues to do with gender, sexuality, caste, class, refugees, art and resistance, marginality and cinema, student politics, mob lynching and the policy of targeting the ones who raise their voice against oppression. The book is divided into four sections to create a cohesive framework while covering issues from multiple sites of conflict. It also delves around the discourse of body in its multiplicity while taking up the issue of Anthropocene. This anthology is a step towards the requisite to continue the conversation about and around the domain of marginality.