Christi A Merrill
Biographic Data
| ID | 1566566 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christi A Merrill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christi A |
| FAMILY NAME | Merrill |
| SIGNATURE | MERRILL C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Authors, Activists, Archivists
In 2014, two sets of Dalit literature scholars based in the West started working on two different collaborative grant projects that announced themselves as ‘networks’: Nicole Thiara and Judith Misrahi-Barak received AHRC funding to organise a series of programmes for the Dalit Literature Network, and Christi Merrill and her colleagues at the University of Michigan received internal funding to develop a suite of digital tools called Translation Ne…
Justice’ in Translation
The story of Kausalya Baisantry’s life of anti-caste activism is featured in Urmila Pawar and Meenakshi Moon’s Amhihi Itihasa Ghadavala (We Also Made History) in Marathi, and in her own book-length work of ‘autobiography literature’ written in Hindi as Dohra Abhishap (Doubly Cursed), but it is a speech Baisantry delivered in English as a college student activist that Pawar and Moon discuss as an example of ‘Sahityatun Prabodhan (Enlightenment thr…
Dalit Studies
Crafting a Feminist Dalit Consciousness in Translation
Doubly Cursed is lauded for being the first autobiography written in Hindi by a Dalit woman, but by balancing feminist critique with a hard-won analysis of caste-based oppression, the activist and writer Kausalya Baisantry redefines the very genre she writes in. How should her life story be understood when translated into English
Human Rights Singular-Plural
I focus on the English translation of the first-person narrative Joothan by Dalit Hindi writer Omprakash Valmiki to ask how we read accounts from the "downtrodden" across languages and cultures. I argue that the Dalit atmakatha posits a different relationship between self and society than most autobiography in English, and so puts productive pressure on the generic expectations used to assess human rights
Human Rights Singular-Plural
I focus on the English translation of the first-person narrative Joothan by Dalit Hindi writer Omprakash Valmiki to ask how we read accounts from the "downtrodden" across languages and cultures. I argue that the Dalit atmakatha posits a different relationship between self and society than most autobiography in English, and so puts productive pressure on the generic expectations used to assess human rights
Crafting a Feminist Dalit Consciousness in Translation
Doubly Cursed is lauded for being the first autobiography written in Hindi by a Dalit woman, but by balancing feminist critique with a hard-won analysis of caste-based oppression, the activist and writer Kausalya Baisantry redefines the very genre she writes in. How should her life story be understood when translated into English
Human Rights Singular-Plural
I focus on the English translation of the first-person narrative Joothan by Dalit Hindi writer Omprakash Valmiki to ask how we read accounts from the "downtrodden" across languages and cultures. I argue that the Dalit atmakatha posits a different relationship between self and society than most autobiography in English, and so puts productive pressure on the generic expectations used to assess human rights
Crafting a Feminist Dalit Consciousness in Translation
Doubly Cursed is lauded for being the first autobiography written in Hindi by a Dalit woman, but by balancing feminist critique with a hard-won analysis of caste-based oppression, the activist and writer Kausalya Baisantry redefines the very genre she writes in. How should her life story be understood when translated into English
Dalit Studies
Justice’ in Translation
The story of Kausalya Baisantry’s life of anti-caste activism is featured in Urmila Pawar and Meenakshi Moon’s Amhihi Itihasa Ghadavala (We Also Made History) in Marathi, and in her own book-length work of ‘autobiography literature’ written in Hindi as Dohra Abhishap (Doubly Cursed), but it is a speech Baisantry delivered in English as a college student activist that Pawar and Moon discuss as an example of ‘Sahityatun Prabodhan (Enlightenment thr…
Authors, Activists, Archivists
In 2014, two sets of Dalit literature scholars based in the West started working on two different collaborative grant projects that announced themselves as ‘networks’: Nicole Thiara and Judith Misrahi-Barak received AHRC funding to organise a series of programmes for the Dalit Literature Network, and Christi Merrill and her colleagues at the University of Michigan received internal funding to develop a suite of digital tools called Translation Ne…
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Biography (3 works) · Hindi (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · South Asian Studies and Diaspora (3 works)