CASTE AND LIFE NARRATIVES (HB)

Author: edited by Shankar, S.

Brand: Primus Books

Edition: First Edition

Binding: Hardcover

Number Of Pages: 320

Release Date: 01-01-2019

Details: This collection of twelve essays foregrounds the conjunction of the social phenomenon called ‘caste’ with the genre of representation called ‘life narratives’. Life narratives have long been a constitutive archive and a performative mode for testifying to the breadth and ferocity of caste oppression and for articu¬lating a language of caste dissent. Caste and Life Narratives covers a variety of modes of representing ‘actual lives’, in whole or in fragments—from autobiographies, and interviews to Facebook posts, biopics, visual representations, and most tragically, a suicide note. It uses the notion of ‘Critical Castestudies’, which is vitally animated by Dalit Studies, but is not coterminous with it. While acknowledging the unique status of Dalit and Dalibahujan perspectives, it argues that caste is not the lived reality of Dalits alone and, accordingly, a critical study of caste cannot be solely their burden. Drawing from postcolonial, Dalit and Critical Castestudies, this syncretic collection of essays provides a unique theoretical and methodological perspectives, provoking new ways of entering into the burgeoning study of caste.

EAN: 9789352908752

Package Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.0 x 1.5 inches

Languages: English