Literature And Social Change

Year:2014,Binding:Hardcover,Pages:232,Language:English, Description:- , About The Author:- Parmod Kumar is presently Assistant Professor in the Faculty of English at Indira Gandhi National Open University. He has done his doctoral research on the domestication and insurrection of marginalised voices in Indian English Literature. He also edits an e-journal Sangharsh which puts to center all academic and social issues related with Dalit Discourse. He has been a proud recipient of Australia India Council Fellowship and has worked extensively on the perspectives in indigeneity in India and Australia. He can be contacted at [email protected], Contents:- Preface Acknowledgements List of Contributors 1. Fictionalising Social Change: Violence and Non-violence in the Imaginary of Collective Transformation in Some Hindi Dalit Novels Heinz Werner Wessler 2. Dalit Historiography: Poetry of Basudev Sunani Saroj Mahananda 3. Construction of Dalit Identity: The Alternative Socio-Cultural Movements in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh Bolleddu Siva Nagaiah 4. The Plight of Dalit Women in Contemporary Indian Society Siddaramu, B. 5. Exploring Marginalised Men and Women in Hindi Cinema Shamali Gupta Bose 6. Dalit Woman and the Necessity of a Dalit Feminist Aesthetic Tradition Runa Chakraborty 7. Gujarati Dalit Writings: A Literature of Marginalised M.B. Gaijan 9 11 15 17 45 57 65 75 83 95 8 Literature and Social Change 8. Plural Resistances in Dalit Autobiographies Kanchan Verma 9. Marginalising of the Tribals: Literature as Resistance Mahasveta Devi and Dinesh Misra 10. Mapping the Self, Mapping Dalithood: Namdeo Dhasal