Dalit Women's Autobiographies : a Critical Appraisal [Hardcover]

ABOUT THE BOOK:- Dalit Women's Autobiographies: A Critical Appraisal is a collection of twenty-one eruditely written articles that articulate the plight of Dalit women buffeted by tripartite marginalization of class, caste and gender. Lack of education and dearth of agencies to register as well as retrieve their complaints compel the Dalit women to lead a subjugated and claustrophobic existence. Unlike Dalit men, Dalit women have to undergo multiple bouts of humiliation and domination. Dalit women's autobiographies express Dalit women's protest against such injustices and cruelties in their own ways and carve out a space for the mselves. Each autobiographical narrative is a poignant and agonising saga of resistance and thus, proclaims caste as an obliterable disease of the society. Dalit women, by taking recourse to the act of writing about their quotidian struggles, have foregrounded the complex bond between caste and gender as well as paved the way for the emergence of, what Gayatri Chakravorti Spivak calls, 'strategic essentialism.' Contributors, to this anthology, have tried their level best to analyse and explore such variegated issues welling out of the autobiographical Dalit tex ts. The intellectually gifted contributors for this anthology are Prof. D. Amalraj, Dr. Irum Alvi, Dr. Archana Bhattacharjee, Dr. Sigma G.R., Dr. Himanginee Kaushik, Dr. Deepika Rani, Guni Vats, Suruchi Sharma, Kusum Kanger, Ramanuj Mahato, Saikat Guha, Dwaipayan Mitra, Mohd. Anwar Husain Khan , Himanshu Sharma , Pradip Sarikhada, Dr. Namita Panda, Dr. Sumitra Singh, Dr. M. B. Gaijan, Dr. Aparna Lanjewar Bose and Dr. Narendra Kumar. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:- Dr. Bijender Singh (M.A., M. Phil. & Ph.D.) is a writer, researcher and critic from India. He has qualified UGC-NET, SET and HTET for lectureship and he has done Sanskrit Honours (Shastri), Art & Crafts Teacher Course and Multi-purpose Health Worker (Male) Course. He has written a few essays, some short-stories and a number of Hindi poems. He has published two volumes of poetry; one short-story collection and seven edited anthologies on English book-form publications alirtee rLaatutere N. iHghist Poetry, Confusing Poetry, Love: A Sweet Poison, Gender Discourse in Indian Writings in English, Indian Writing in English: Critical Insights, Indian Dalit Literature: Critical Ruminations, Critical Essays on Indian Diaspora, Indian Dalit Autobiographies: Marginalized Voices, Indian Women Novelists: Feminist Reverberations and Dalit Women's Autobiographies: A Critical Appraisal. His thrust areas are Gender Studies, Dalit Literature, Diasporic Studies and Afro- American Literature. He has published many articles in many peer-reviewed national journals, international journals, seminar/conference proceedings and edited anthologies. He is the Editor-in- Chief of The Expression: An International Multidisciplinarye - Journal. He presently works as an English lecturer. CONTENTS:- Foreword 9 Introduction 15 Notes on the Contributors 31 1. Sex Knows No Caste: A Study of 39 P. Sivakami’s The Grip of Change Professor D. Amalraj 2. Dalit Experiences of Social Rejection and 47 Creativity in Urmila Pawar’s Autobiography Aaydan / The Weave of My Life Dr Irum Alvi 3. Articulation of Social Injustices, 57 Gender Discrimination and Patriarchy Tradition in Bama’s Sangati Dr Archana Bhattacharjee 4. Role of Marriage in Shaping a Dalit 69 Woman’s Identity: A Study of Dalit Memoir Viramma: Life of an Untouchable Dr Sigma G.R. 5. Voice of the Voiceless: A Study of 79 P. Sivakami’s The Grip of Change Dr Himanginee Kaushik 6 Dalit Women’s Autobiographies: A Critical Appraisal 6. Marginalisation and Subordination of Dalit 87 Women in Mukta Sarvagod’s Closed Doors Dr Deepika Rani 7. Breaking the Margins: Analysing The Prisons 99 We Broke as a Testimony of Oppression and Resistance Guni Vats 8. A Doubly Oppressed Voice in Urmila in 109 Pawar’s The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman’s Memoir Suruchi Sharma 9. A Reading of Subjugation of Dalit Women 119 in Baby Kondiba Kamble’s The Prisons We Broke Kusum Kanger 10. Bama’s Karukku: (Re)-reading Dalit History 129 in South India and (Re)-interpreting the Identity of a Dalit (Wo)-man Ramanuj Mahato 11. Little-Narrative of Infinite Pain: C. K. Janu’s 141 Mother Forest and Socio-economic Deprivation Saikat Guha 12. Multiple Facets of Dalit Patriarchy in 151 P. Sivakami’s The Grip of Change Dwaipayan Mitra 13. Bama’s Sangati: The Autobiography of a 161 Dalit Community Mohd. Anwar Husain Khan 14. Powerful Clamp of Caste in Kumudtai 173 Pawde’s Antaspot: Thoughtful Outburst Himanshu Sharma CONTENTS:- 7 15. Demystifying the Curse: Reading 183 Kausalya Baisantri’s Dohra Abhishaap as a Journey of an Untouchable Woman Guni Vats 16. Poverty, Tyranny and Fear in I, Phoolan 193 Devi: The Autobiography of India’s Bandit Queen Pradip Sarikhada 17. An Exploited Serf and Patriarchal Chains: 203 A Study of Viramma’s Viramma: Life of an Untouchable Dr Namita Panda 18. Reflection of Dampening Down of Persona 211 in Urmila Pawar’s: The Weave of My Life Dr Sumitra Singh 19. Selected Dalit Women Autobiographies: 219 The Unheard Agonies Dr M.B. Gaijan 20. Casteism, Classism and Sexism: (Re) Examining 229 the Intergenerational Syllogism in Baisantri’s Dohra Abhishaap (Twice Accursed) Dr Aparna Lanjewar Bose 21. Religion, Caste and Identity: A Study of 247 Bama’s Karukku Dr Narendra Kumar Index 255 The Title 'Dalit Women's Autobiographies : a Critical Appraisal written/authored/edited by Dr Bijender Singh', published in the year 2016. The ISBN 9789351282006 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 263 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Womens Studies. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-