Dalit Writing in Hindi and Politics of Resistance and Recognition from Within
A Thematic Reading of Selected Narrative by Kausalya Baisantri
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13118273 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shaista Perween (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Moshabbir Alam (0000-0002-7306-8909, National Institute of Technology Raipur, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Voice of Dalit (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2455-328X • E-ISSN: 2456-0502 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2455328x231171021 |
| OpenAlex | W4381053710 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 33 |
Hindi Dalit literature has been produced for over a century but is yet to be acknowledged by a larger mainstream audience. In this article, it is examined how generations of Dalit women lived. Experience of Hindi Dalit literature was constructed by several social, political, ideological and economic factors that together obscured the cultural identity of Dalit women. Using narrative text Dohra Abhishaap , an autobiography and testimonio in nature, written by Kausalya Baisantri, Hindi Dalit author as an entry point, this essay analyses the explicit and implicit mechanisms of Dalit women oppression that have averted Dalit women writers from consolidating their distinct identity. This article examines critically on the discourse regarding the subaltern’s failure to speak and/or be heard, and reflects Hindi Dalit literature’s triumph over casteist struggles to relegate it to the periphery. I argue that Dalit autobiographies/testimonio are indeed a medium towards change and development to represent the ‘silenced voices’
Aesthetics · Art · Hindi · Identity (music · Ideology · Linguistics · Literature · Mainstream · Narrative · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Subaltern · Gender Studies · History · Law · South Asian Cinema and Culture · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · South Asian Studies and Diaspora
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Nation-building, Minority Rights, and Denotified Communities
Women and religion in the nomadic Nat community in India
Identity in corporeality
Situating the Self within the Changing Societal Dynamics- a Perspective of the Nat in India
Unheard Voices
Women, autobiography, theory
Dalit Women's Education in Modern India
Can the Subaltern Speak?
Modernity at large
Castes of Mind
Reading Kaushalya Baisantry's Dohra Abhishaap
On Collective Memory
The Nation and Its Fragments
Understanding Identity, Education and Multi-religiosity Among the Nat Tribe of Paschim Champaran in India
The Double Curse”—a Dalit Woman Autobiography in Hindi by Kausalya Baisantri
Pain, Personhood and the Collective
Dalit Women's Education in Modern India
Dalit women's education in modern India
Rape, Popular Culture, and Nirbhaya
Feminist Pedagogy and Sociology for Emancipation in India
Narrating Dalit womanhood and the aesthetics of autobiography
Speaking Self , Writing Caste
Mapping the Margins
Mahar-Dalit-Buddhist
Crafting a Feminist Dalit Consciousness in Translation
Between Memory and History
Transformations between History and Memory
Collective Memory and Cultural Identity
Testimonio and Postmodernism
Rethinking the Public Sphere
Dalit Autobiographies as Counter Publics
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |