Listen to the Flames
TEXTS AND READINGS FROM THE MARGINS
Price: 275.00 INR
ISBN:
9780199467600
Publication date:
29/02/2016
Paperback
Price: 275.00 INR
ISBN:
9780199467600
Publication date:
29/02/2016
Paperback
First Edition
Listen to the Flames: Texts and Readings from the Margins bring to the foreground Dalit writings from various Indian languages. Contributors include N.D. Rajkumar, Jayant Parmar, Paul Chirakkarode, C. Ayyappan, Bama, Sharan Kumar Limbale, Sheoraj Singh ‘Bechain’ and of course, B.R. Ambedkar. This collection is particularly edited for study with notes on the authors, pre-text discussions, messages from the authors themselves, and activity-based exercises with an aim to open a critical perspective of the learners on the subject.
Rights: World Rights
First Edition
Description
Listen to the Flames: Texts and Readings from the Margins bring to the foreground Dalit writings from various Indian languages. Contributors include N.D. Rajkumar, Jayant Parmar, Paul Chirakkarode, C. Ayyappan, Bama, Sharan Kumar Limbale, Sheoraj Singh ‘Bechain’ and of course, B.R. Ambedkar. This collection is particularly edited for study with notes on the authors, pre-text discussions, messages from the authors themselves, and activity-based exercises with an aim to open a critical perspective of the learners on the subject. The detailed introduction prepares the ground for those who do not know this landscape and for others who are familiar with it but may not have studied it with a view to locating it academically and aesthetically. This book will help students learn how Dalit literature poses a major challenge to existing notions of literature and how literature is to be read. By reading this book they will be able to explore the history of Dalit literature, its salient features and concerns, and the sensibilities required for its appreciation.
First Edition
Description
Listen to the Flames: Texts and Readings from the Margins bring to the foreground Dalit writings from various Indian languages. Contributors include N.D. Rajkumar, Jayant Parmar, Paul Chirakkarode, C. Ayyappan, Bama, Sharan Kumar Limbale, Sheoraj Singh ‘Bechain’ and of course, B.R. Ambedkar. This collection is particularly edited for study with notes on the authors, pre-text discussions, messages from the authors themselves, and activity-based exercises with an aim to open a critical perspective of the learners on the subject. The detailed introduction prepares the ground for those who do not know this landscape and for others who are familiar with it but may not have studied it with a view to locating it academically and aesthetically. This book will help students learn how Dalit literature poses a major challenge to existing notions of literature and how literature is to be read. By reading this book they will be able to explore the history of Dalit literature, its salient features and concerns, and the sensibilities required for its appreciation.