Dalit Text

Judith Misrahi-Barak is an associate professor at University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France. She has published widely on Caribbean and Indo- and Sino-Caribbean writers, and diaspora literatures. She is general editor of the series PoCoPages. She co-edited Dalit Literatures in India with Joshil K. Abraham (2015; 2nd edition 2018) and was co-investigator on the AHRC Research Network series ‘Writing, Analysing, Translating Dalit Literature’ (2014–16). She has written several entries on Dalit Literature and Dalit writers for the forthcoming Dictionnaire encyclopédique des littératures indiennes (DELI). K. Satyanarayana is a professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at the English and Foreign Language University, Hyderabad, India. He co-edited two volumes of new Dalit writing: No Alphabet in Sight (2011), Steel Nibs Are Sprouting (2013) and, most recently, Dalit Studies (2016). His research interests are in the fields of Dalit studies, literary history, and cultural theory. He is a regular commentator on Dalit issues in the media and public forums. Nicole Thiara teaches postcolonial and contemporary literature at Nottingham Trent University, UK. She has written Salman Rushdie and Indian Historiography: Writing the Nation into Being (2009) and articles on Dalit literature, contemporary South Asian literature and the British Asian diaspora. She was the principal investigator on the AHRC Research Network series ‘Writing, Analysing, Translating Dalit Literature’ (2014–16).

1. Introduction: Aesthetics and Politics Re-Imagined Judith Misrahi-Barak, K. Satyanarayana and Nicole Thiara Part I Speaking Out 2. Manoranjan Byapari Sipra Mukherjee 3. Kalyani Thakur Charal Jayati Gupta 4. Cho. Dharman R. Azhagarasan and R. Arul 5. Des Raj Kali Rajkumar Hans Part II Writing from Within: Genre and Gender 6. Author’s Notes or Revisions? The Politics of Form in P. Sivakami’s Two Novels Kanak Yadav 7. Of Subjecthood and Form: On Reading Two Dalit Short Stories from Gujarat, India Santosh Dash 8 Janu and Saleena Narrating Life: Subjects and Spaces Carmel Christy K. J. 9 Mother as Fucked: Reimagining Dalit Female Sexuality in Sahil Parmar’s Poetry Gopika Jadeja 10 A Pox on Your House: Exploring Caste and Gender in Tulsi Ram’s Murdahiya Shivani Kapoor Part III Reading Across 11 Dalit Literature in Translation: A Symptomatic Reading of Sharankumar Limbale’s Akkarmashi in English Translation Arun Prabha Mukherjee 12 Translating Dalit Literature: Redrawing the Map of Cultural Politics Maya Pandit Part IV Looking Through 13 Notes on Questions of Dalit Art Deeptha Achar 14 (Re-)imaging Caste in Graphic Novels: A Study of A Gardener in the Wasteland and Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability Ruchika Bhatia and Devika Mehra 15 Dalits and the Spectacle of Victimhood in Telugu Cinema Chandra Sekhar