Writing as Resistance : Literature of Emancipation
Contents: Preface. 1. Giving voices to Subaltern stilled voices through deconstruction/S. Robert Gnanamony. 2. Intra Dalit feud and discourse of Vendetta in Bama\'s Vanmam/T. Gangadharan. 3. Gujarati Dalit Novel: a thematic study to build twenty first century India/M.B. Gaijan. 4. Gujarati Dalit Novel Shosh: a study from a feminist perspective/M.B. Gaijan. 5. Environmental concerns in labrador natives poems and Gujarati Dalits poems/M.B. Gaijan. 6. The suppressed of the oppressed/Premila Bhaskar. 7. Subaltern subjectivity and resistance: Dalit social history in postcolonial Indian fiction in English/Rajeshwar Mittapalli. 8. The Subaltern speaks: politics and poetics of Dalit literature/Nina Caldeira. 9. I was ever a fighter so one fight more Dalits voice from the margin/G.A. Ghanshyam. 10. Liberate me if you can: a reading of R.P. Amudhans Shit Pee/Khusi Pattanayak. 11. Dalit literature in India/Vandana Bhatt. 12. An interview with Manohar Mouli Biswas/Jaydeep Sarangi. 13. In search of a Dalit female consciousness: through the religio-folk idiom of Meerabai and the National womanhood of Sita/Debasree Basu. 14. Dalit literature in Marathi as a part of Indian literature: a brief survey/Bajrang Korde. 15. An interview with Dalit writer Jai Prakash Kardam/Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal. 16. The untouchable an individuals attempt for emancipation from untouchability/D. Ashish Gupta. 17. Representation of Dalits in the fiction of Mulk Raj Anand: A study of Bakha\'s character/Rajeev Kumar Sharma. 18. An interview with Kalyani Thakur Charal/Jaydeep Sarangi and Angana Dutta. Index.
Dalit literature in India received its first impetus with the advent of leaders like Mahatma Phule and Ambedkar in Maharastra who emphasised on the seminal concerns of Dalits through their theoretical writings. It gave birth to a new trend in Indian writing and inspired many underdogs to come forth with writings in Marathi Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Punjabi. The Dalit body of writings portray the underdogs and through them the writers expose social hypocrisy and taboos class exploitation and class struggle social and economic in justice.
The edited volume of research articles aims at discovering the vast virgin territory of Dalit writings in India which falls as a counter discourse of mainstream Indian writings in English. It includes some established scholars and professors in the concerned areas. The kernel of this book comprises a critique of the marginalization against them. It wants to propagate the idea that Dalit writing is a sociological engagement. (jacket)
