Concealing caste : passing and personhood in Dalit literature / K. Satyanarayanan and Joel Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Satyanarayanan, Kusuma, author.

Lee, Joel G., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indic literature--Dalit authors--History and criticism.

Indic literature.

Passing (Identity) in literature.

Caste in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (148 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Part I Short Stories

1. When I Hid My Caste

2. Dread

3. The Parable of the Lost Daughter: Luke 15: 11-32

4. In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit

5. New Custom

6. Raw Deal

7. Friend of the Family

8. No Bar

9. Sandstorm

10. Madness

11. Tattoo

Part II Autobiographical Writings

12. Waiting for a Visa

13. Doubly Cursed

14. Joothan

15. My Caste

16. Weave of My Life

17. Interrogating My Chandal Life

18. The Flood

19. Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

Glossary of Terms, People, and Places

Glossary of Castes and Caste Titles.

Notes:

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 4, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Satyanarayanan, Kusuma Concealing Caste

ISBN:

0-19-195569-8

0-19-268882-0

OCLC:

1369663510