Tamil Dalit Feminist Poetics - Pramila Venkateswaran

Tamil Dalit Feminist Poetics

Resistance, Power, and Solidarity
Buch | Hardcover
226 Seiten
2024
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-2132-8 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
This book explores Tamil Dalit feminist poets challenging Tamil literary tradition with poetics that reinvent language, form, and content. They present their radical poems shedding rich insight on the violence of patriarchal and caste supremacy on the Dalit body, while affirming Dalit spirituality, music, culture, nature, and democracy.
Tamil Dalit feminist poetry occurs in the nexus of caste demands and literary expectations based on Tamil “high culture,” as set in the literary conventions of both classical and contemporary aesthetics. Tamil Dalit feminist poets and their allies challenge literary expectations set for women poets as well as caste stigma. In Tamil Dalit Feminist Poetics: Resistance, Power, and Solidarity, Pramila Venkateswaran argues that Dalit poets Sukirtharani, Arangamallika, Umadevi, Meena Kandasamy, and Tamil feminist allies, such as Malathi Maitri and Kutty Revathi, challenge the literary tradition of Tamil poetry by presenting their radical poems on themes based on their experience and witnessing the trauma of violence on Dalit women’s bodies, thus placing caste and gender at the center of their work. They assert their subjectivity, offering us a feminist poetics that is rich with insights on the Dalit body, spirituality, music, culture, Dalit connection to land, and democracy. Their poems theorize women’s experiences, using metaphor, symbol, folk idioms, as well as satire and irony to express feminist connectedness to all spheres of life. Replete with anti-caste resistance of language, form, and content, Tamil Dalit feminist poets reframe both feminism and contemporary Tamil poetry. Thus, Dalit feminist poetry and other cultural productions are vehicles for solidarity and democracy.

Pramila Venkateswaran teaches English and women’s studies at SUNY Nassau, New York.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One: Tamil Dalit Feminist Poetry as Theory

Chapter Two: Radical Aesthetics in Tamil Dalit Feminist Poetry: Themes, Forms, Language

Chapter Three: Challenging Brahminical Patriarchy: Asserting Dalit Spirituality

Chapter Four: Sexuality in Tamil Dalit Feminist Poetry

Chapter Five: Land, Labor, and Love: Tamil Dalit Feminist Poets’ Embodied Expressions

Chapter Six: Contemporary Expressions of Dalit Feminist Oral Tradition: Performing Songs, Rap, and Gaana

Chapter Seven: Love as Medicine: Dalit and Non-Dalit Feminist Solidarity

Bibliography

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum
Sprache englisch
Maße 157 x 237 mm
Gewicht 508 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-6669-2132-7 / 1666921327
ISBN-13 978-1-6669-2132-8 / 9781666921328
Zustand Neuware
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