Rewriting resistance : caste and gender in Indian literature / edited by Md Rakibul Islam and Md Jakir Hossain.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Islam, Md. Rakibul, editor.

Hossain, Md. Jakir, editor.

Class of 1932 Fund.

Series:

Series in literary studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indic fiction--History and criticism.

Indic fiction.

Indic literature--History and criticism.

Indic literature.

Caste in literature.

Women in literature.

Dalits in literature.

Gender identity in literature.

Physical Description:

xlviii, 155 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Wilmington, Delaware : Vernon Press, [2022]

Summary:

"'Rewriting Resistance: Caste and Gender in Indian Literature' explores the claustrophobic shadow of discrimination hanging over Indian women and lower caste people from ancient times. It examines how different literary figures paint a vivid and descriptive picture of the physical and psychological oppression faced throughout India. The book traces feminist resistance, subaltern resistance, and resistance during the anti-colonial struggle, with the literary outputs discussed working as socio-political activity against dominant ideologies. The volume further talks about the responsibility, not only of those oppressed, but also of us as human beings, to speak out against the violation of human rights and for justice. So, the book focuses on the literary writers who always dream of a better India where all people, regardless of their caste, class and gender, can live and breathe freely. The book is divided into three parts. Part I describes the plight of women, their commodification and the politics around them, and how they fight hard to regain their faded identity. Part II depicts the interesting findings on gender-caste intersections and discrimination. Part III explores the struggle of the low caste, specifically male members of Dalit community, along with their history. It further portrays how orthodoxy in rituals creates the burden of traditional and existential crises. 'Rewriting Resistance: Caste and Gender in Indian Literature' re-visits Indian literary texts in terms of what they reveal about the resistance registered through the suffering of human beings (women and Dalits) at the hands of fellow human beings, and further links the discussion to our contemporary situation. The book has a unique quality in that it is not only a detailed study of select Indian English texts, but also delves into an in-depth analysis of texts from Bengali, Urdu, and Hindi literature. The work is likely to affect and appeal to students, scholars and academics, and can be adopted for classroom teaching and research purposes as well."--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Caste and Gender: an Introduction

Part I. Gender and Resistance

Power Politics and Reclaiming Identity: A Study of the Transgender in Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness / Safiul Islam

Redefining Women, Reconstructing Space in Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column / Afsha Naaz

Women in Premchand's Stories Are Types, Not Individuals: A Contemporary Study of Select Short Stories of Munshi Premchand / Shreya Ghosh

The God of Small Things: Revisiting the Bible of the Indian Feminist Movement / Mohosin Mandal

Bodies that Matter: Interrogating the Discourses around the 'Body' in Samina Ali's Madras on Rainy Days / Hasina Wahida

Body on the Market: A Marxist-Feminist Study of the Novel Masooma by Ismat Chughtai / Md Mizanur Rahaman

Searching for Self and Autonomy, Breaking Claustrophobic Domesticity: A Critical Analysis of Kavery Nambisan's Mango-Coloured Fish / Tanbir Shahnawaz

Technocracy versus Theocracy: A Critical Study of Sultana's Dream / Abdul Mabood

Part II. Caste-Gender Intersectionality and Resistance

Individual and Agency in Derozio's "The Fakeer of Jungheera" / Siddhartha Chakraborti

Understanding Dalit Feminist Perspective through Bama's Karukku / Fouzia Usmani

Reinterpreting to Retrieve Lost Women's Voices: Gendered Subalternities in Mahasweta Devi's "Bayen" and Raja Rao's "Javni" / Kusumika Sarkar

Part III. Caste and Resistance

Casteism and Colonial Discourse: A Projection of Marginality in Bama's Karukku / Abdus Sattar

Bhimayana as a Biographical Stance on Resistance / Anisha Ghosh

Orthodoxy in Rituals Creating the Burden of Tradition and Existential Crisis: A Critical Reading of U. R. Anantha Murthy's Samskara / Ismail Sarkar

Bhimayana: A Graphic Projection of History and Plight of Dalits in India / Eeshan Ali, Motahar Hossain, Imtiaj Alam.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

164889349X

9781648893490

OCLC:

1295805022

Publisher Number:

99990516007