Concealing Caste
Narratives of Passing and Personhood in Dalit Literature
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9780192865243
Publication date:
26/04/2023
Hardback
208 pages
Price: 1895.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780192865243
Publication date:
26/04/2023
Hardback
208 pages
Kusuma Satyanarayanan, Joel Lee
It is the first ever collection of this kind: an anthology of Dalit literature (from multiple languages) focused on a particular theme.,It contains both landmarks in Dalit literature as well as never-before-translated and never-before-published stories and essays.,It speaks to audiences both familiar to Dalit literature and new to it, to readerships based in South Asia as well as those in the US, UK and beyond.
Rights: OUP UK (INDIAN TERRITORY)
Kusuma Satyanarayanan, Joel Lee
Description
The caste system is supposed to be inescapable-you cannot change the caste into which you are born. But are there ways to elude the system? Concealing Caste tells the stories of women and men in India who, though born into communities stigmatized as 'untouchable,' are perceived by others as 'high caste.' Like the literature on racial passing in the American context, the short stories and autobiographical essays in this volume reveal the inner workings of a vicious social order, illuminating the contradictions of caste hierarchy through the experience of those who clandestinely transgress its boundaries. Concealing Caste is the first collection of Dalit writings focused on this public secret. Bringing together Dalit literature from Marathi, Telugu, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, English and Malayalam-including stories and essays never before translated-this landmark anthology illustrates the agonizing choices and at times devastating consequences faced by Dalits who experiment with identity in a society shot through with the principle of birth-based inequality.
About the author
Kusuma Satyanarayanan, Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, English and Foreign Language University, Hyderabad, India, and Joel Lee, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Williams College, Massachusetts, USAK. Satyanarayana is a professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at the English and Foreign Language University, Hyderabad, India. He co-edited two volumes of new Dalit writing: No Alphabet in Sight (2011), Steel Nibs Are Sprouting (2013), Dalit Studies (2016) and, most recently, Dalit Text (2020). His research interests are in the fields of Dalit studies, literary history, and cultural theory.
Joel Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Williams College, Massachusetts, USA. He is the author of Deceptive Majority: Dalits, Hinduism, and Underground Religion (2021), and his research interests lie in the critical analysis of caste, sensory studies, popular religion, and Hindi and Urdu literature.
Kusuma Satyanarayanan, Joel Lee
Table of contents
1:Introduction, Joel Lee/K Satyanarayana
2:When I Hid My Caste, Baburao Bagul
3:Dread, Omprakash Valmiki
4:The Parable of the Lost Daughter: Luke 15: 11-32, M.M. Vinodini
5:New Custom, Ajay Navaria
6:Raw Deal, Surajpal Chauhan
7:Friend of the Family, Sharankumar Limbale
8:No Bar, Jai Prakash Kardam
9:Sandstorm, Omprakash Valmiki
10:Madness, C. Ayyappan
11:Tattoo, Ajay Navaria
12:Waiting for a Visa, BR Ambedkar
13:Doubly Cursed, Kausalya Baisantry
14:Joothan, Omprakash Valmiki
15:My Caste, Jai Prakash Kardam
16:Weave of my Life, Urmila Pawar
17:Interrogating my Chandal Life, Manoranjan Byapari
18:The Flood, Shailaja Paik
19:Coming Out as Dalit, Yashica Dutt
20:In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Pratibha Jeyachandran
Kusuma Satyanarayanan, Joel Lee
Description
The caste system is supposed to be inescapable-you cannot change the caste into which you are born. But are there ways to elude the system? Concealing Caste tells the stories of women and men in India who, though born into communities stigmatized as 'untouchable,' are perceived by others as 'high caste.' Like the literature on racial passing in the American context, the short stories and autobiographical essays in this volume reveal the inner workings of a vicious social order, illuminating the contradictions of caste hierarchy through the experience of those who clandestinely transgress its boundaries. Concealing Caste is the first collection of Dalit writings focused on this public secret. Bringing together Dalit literature from Marathi, Telugu, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, English and Malayalam-including stories and essays never before translated-this landmark anthology illustrates the agonizing choices and at times devastating consequences faced by Dalits who experiment with identity in a society shot through with the principle of birth-based inequality.
About the author
Kusuma Satyanarayanan, Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, English and Foreign Language University, Hyderabad, India, and Joel Lee, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Williams College, Massachusetts, USAK. Satyanarayana is a professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at the English and Foreign Language University, Hyderabad, India. He co-edited two volumes of new Dalit writing: No Alphabet in Sight (2011), Steel Nibs Are Sprouting (2013), Dalit Studies (2016) and, most recently, Dalit Text (2020). His research interests are in the fields of Dalit studies, literary history, and cultural theory.
Joel Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Williams College, Massachusetts, USA. He is the author of Deceptive Majority: Dalits, Hinduism, and Underground Religion (2021), and his research interests lie in the critical analysis of caste, sensory studies, popular religion, and Hindi and Urdu literature.
Table of contents
1:Introduction, Joel Lee/K Satyanarayana
2:When I Hid My Caste, Baburao Bagul
3:Dread, Omprakash Valmiki
4:The Parable of the Lost Daughter: Luke 15: 11-32, M.M. Vinodini
5:New Custom, Ajay Navaria
6:Raw Deal, Surajpal Chauhan
7:Friend of the Family, Sharankumar Limbale
8:No Bar, Jai Prakash Kardam
9:Sandstorm, Omprakash Valmiki
10:Madness, C. Ayyappan
11:Tattoo, Ajay Navaria
12:Waiting for a Visa, BR Ambedkar
13:Doubly Cursed, Kausalya Baisantry
14:Joothan, Omprakash Valmiki
15:My Caste, Jai Prakash Kardam
16:Weave of my Life, Urmila Pawar
17:Interrogating my Chandal Life, Manoranjan Byapari
18:The Flood, Shailaja Paik
19:Coming Out as Dalit, Yashica Dutt
20:In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Pratibha Jeyachandran
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