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Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Introduction: The Narrating Self and the Narrated Self/K. Purushotham. 1. Aaydan1(Weave of our Lives): Caste, Gender, and Feminism in Dalit Women s Writings in Western India /Varsha Ayyar. 2. Towards an Inclusive Transgender Autobiography/Akshaya K. Rath and Ananya Parida. 3. First Person Singular: Reading Rassundari Devi s Amar Jiban(My Life)/Sanjukta Dasgupta. 4. Indian Lesbian Writing and the Question of Genre/R. Azhagarasan. 5. Recognition of Transgender as Third Gender: Some Reflections/Sanjiv Kumar. 6. Pa Visalam s Autobiographical Novel/Meera Rajagopalan. 7. Narrativizing Rape: Issues, Challenges and possibilities in Aruna s Story/Lahari. 8. The Politics of Representation: Revisiting Dalit feminism in the context of Dalit women autobiographies of Maharashtra/Aparna Lanjewar Bose. 9. The Dynamics of Dalit Fiction and Autobiography: A Reading of Manju Bala s Dwando (Conflict)/Indranil Acharya. 10. Analysis and Performance: The Pedagogy of Autobiographies/H. Kalpana Rao. 11. Incarcerated in Person but Not in Spirit: Prison Narrative of Anjum Zamarud Habib/Vandana Pathak. 12. A World Beyond Pink and Blue: New Perspectives on Gender Roles/Neha Arora. 13. Text as Socio-cultural Archive: A reading of Binodini Dasi s My Story and My Life as an Actress/Ujjwal Jana. Index. Women autobiographies, a generic term for life narratives, histories, memoirs, testimonies and hagiographies , has emerged as a genre, consequent to the postmodernist thrust on the identity and the attendant politics surrounding it. Primarily aimed at communicating the subordinated predicament of women, the writings claim the agency. Based on memory, experience and identity, women narrators reproduce the cultural modes of self-narrating, simultaneously critiquing the status quo. When it comes to the personal lives of the women, there is nothing personal about women's personal lives: the personal is political too. Women, writing the autobiography is a means of finding the agency. It is, therefore, worth exploring as to what compels women write autobiographies. Ahead of their Times: Essays on Women Autobiography in India is an attempt in this direction. The work focuses on select women autobiographies covering those autobiographies written from 1876, the first woman autobiography ever written, to the ones written in the new millennium, encompassing a period of century and a quarter. It includes the works of Indian women autobiographers that include Rassundari Devi, Pa Visalam, Urmila Pawar, Laxminarayan Tripathi, Pinki Virani, Manju Bala, Anjum Jamarud Habib, A. Revathi, Binodini Dasi, besides several other Dalit and transgender writers. The autobiographers in the book are from either the marginalised or the stigmatised sections of the society. This book merits significance because of the fact that the writers of the essays selected those women autobiographers, who are least discussed or not discussed earlier. The women autobiographers in question challenge the hegemony in all the forms, including class, caste and gender, re-locating their own identity in respective categories. They debunk the set patterns of female writers. The authors of the essays present the analyses of the histories of politicised selves in respective autobiographies. What is unique about the interpretation is that instead of reading the autobiographies as the usually known creative or imaginative writing, the authors explore the works in opposition to the masculinised, rational and objective form, which in fact, undermines the experiential category. They set up impersonal protocols of the public and political disputes. The authors see how women actually end up breaking into these formal structures, and thus change the rules of the game. …

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Hardcover. Condition: New. Language: English. ABOUT THE BOOK:- Women autobiographies, a generic term for life narratives, histories, memoirs, testimonios and hagiographies , has emerged as a genre, consequent to the postmodernist thrust on the identity and the attendant politics surrounding it. Primarily aimed at communicating the subordinated predicament of women, the writings claim the agency. Based on memory, experience and identity, women narrators reproduce the cultural modes of self-narrating, simultaneously critiquing the status quo. When it comes to the personal lives of the women, there is nothing personal about women's personal lives: the personal is political too. Women, writing the autobiography is a means of finding the agency. It is, therefore, worth exploring as to what compels women write autobiographies. Ahead of their Times : Essays on Women Autobiography in India is an attempt in this direction. The work focuses on select women autobiographies covering those autobiographies written from 1876, the first woman autobiography ever written, to the ones written in the new millennium, encompassing a period of century and a quarter. It includes the works of Indian women autobiographers that include Rassundari Devi, Pa Visalam, Urmila Pawar, Laxminarayan Tripathi, Pinki Virani, Manju Bala, Anjum Jamarud Habib, A. Revathi, Binodini Dasi, besides several other Dalit and transgender writers. The autobiographers in the book are from either the marginalised or the stigmatised sections of the society. This book merits significance because of the fact that the writers of the essays selected those women autobiographers, who are least discussed or not discussed earlier. The women autobiographers in question challenge the hegemony in all the forms, including class, caste and gender, re-locating their own identity in respective categories. They debunk the set patterns of female writers. The authors of the essays present the analyses of the histories of politicised selves in respective autobiographies. What is unique about the interpretation is that instead of reading the autobiographies as the usually known creative or imaginative writing, the authors explore the works in opposition to the masculinised, rational and objective form, which infact, undermines the experiential category. They set up impersonal protocols of the public and political disputes. The authors see how women actually end up breaking into these formal structures, and thus change the rules of the game. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:- Dr. K. Purushotham is Professor of English and Registrar, Kakatiya University, Warangal. A literary critic and a translator, he works in the areas of women writing, Indian writing, Dalit writing and critical pedagogy. His recent books include The Oxford India Anthology of Telugu Dalit Writing (co-ed), Interrogating the Canon: Literature and Pedagogy of Dalits (Kalpaaz), Black Lilies: An Anthology of Telugu Dalit Poetry (Critical Quest), English for Fluency (Orient BlackSwan), English for Employability, (Orient BlackSwan). He has translated poetry, fiction and non-fiction from Telugu to English, and brought out translation anthologies. He has edited literary journals and served on the editorial boards as editor, guest editor, consulting editor and associate editor of prestigeous national and international journals. He has carried out funded research projects on language and literature. His works are prescribed in different universities at the undergraduate and the postgraduate levels. Prof Purushotham has been a recipient of several national and international awards such as State Award to Meritorious Teachers, Government of Telangana and Fellow of the Royal World of Scribes (FRWS), Pentasi B Philippines World Poetry Festival, in recognition of his teaching and research. CONTENTS:- Acknowledgements . 7 Contributors . 9 Introduction: The Narrating Self and the Narrated Self . 11 K. Purushotham 1. "Aaydan1(Weave of our Lives): Caste, Gender, and Feminism in Dalit Women's Writings in Western India" . 21 Varsha Ayyar 2. Towards an Inclusive Transgender Autobiography . 61 Akshaya K. Rath and Ananya Parida 3. First Person Singular: Reading Rassundari Devi's Amar Jiban(My Life) . 75 Sanjukta Dasgupta 4. Indian Lesbian Writing and the Question of Genre . 91 R. Azhagarasan 5. Recognition of 'Transgender' as 'Third Gender:' Some Reflections . 99 Sanjiv Kumar 6. Pa Visalam's Autobiographical Novel . 109 Meera Rajagopalan 7. Narrativizing Rape: Issues, Challenges and possibilities in Aruna's Story . 121 Lahari 8. The Politics of Representation: Revisiting Dalit feminism in the context of Dalit women autobiographies of Maharashtra . 139 Aparna Lanjewar Bose 9. The Dynamics of Dalit Fiction and Autobiography: A Reading of Manju Bala's 'Dwando' (Conflict) . 157 Indranil Acharya 10. Analysis and Performance: The Pedagogy of Autobiographies . 169 H. Kalpana Rao 11. Incarcerated in Person but Not in Spirit: Prison Narrative of Anjum Zamarud Habib . 179 Vandana Pathak 12. A World Beyond Pink and Blue: New Perspectives on Gender Roles . 197 Neha Arora 13. Text as Socio-cultural Archive: A reading of Binodini Dasi's My Story and My Life as an Actress . 213 Ujjwal Jana Index . 219 The Title 'Ahead of their Times: Essays on Women Autobiography in India written/authored/edited by Edited by K. Purushotham', published in the year 2020. The ISBN 9789353240301 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 226 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Women Studies / Dalit / History and Criticism / Autobiography / India. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol: 226. …

Hardcover. Condition: New. Language: English. About The Book: Interrogating the Canon: Literature and Pedagogy of Dalits is a collection of research articles written on different occasions primarily exploring the alternative histories of language and literature informed by the postcolonial thrust of interrogating the canon. Though varied in themes, the running thread of the articles has been critiquing the exclusivist nature of the literary establishment, and arguing a case for literary inclusion of the dalit writing. The thrust of the dalit writing being mainstreaming the marginal, the author of this book approaches the subject with a three pronged focus: underplaying the mainstream writing; exploring the politics of subordination and struggles for equality; and academicising the dalit writings. The articles in this collection will be of immense use to scholars, teachers and others working in the area. About The Author: K. Purushotham is professor and Head, Department of English, Kakatiya University, Warangal, Telangana. He has published extensively in the areas of ELT, Indian literature and theory. Some of his recent publications include Oxford India Anthology of Telugu Dalit Writing (OUP, in the press); English for Fluency (Orient BlackSwan); English for Employability, (Orient BlackSwan); Black Lilies: An Anthology of Telugu Dalit Poetry (Critical Quest). He translates literary works from Telugu to English. Besides editing Kakatiya Journal of English Studies (KJES), he has guest edited special issues of Creative Forum; Journal of Literature and Aesthetics; Literary Insight; Scholar Critic; Literary Vibes; Revaluations. He has carried out Major Research Projects for UGC and ICSSR, New Delhi. Contents: Acknowledgements 9 Preface 11 Introduction 19 Subordinating the Language Bhakti Writings Social Reformation The Dalit Challenge Untouchability within Untouchability 1. Social Movements and Identity Formation The Roots Adi Movements Ambedkar Conclusion 33 2. Movement Literature: A Dalit Critique Bhakti Movement Reform Movement (19051920) 43 Adi Movement (19061935) Nationalist Literary Movement (19051945) Progressive Literary Movement (193555) Digambara Poetic Movement (196568) Revolutionary Literary Movement (1970 80) Feminist Literary Movement (19802000) Revival of Dalit Movement (1985) Telangana Literary Movement 3. The Rise of Telugu Dalit Novel Language Reform Social Novel Nationalist/Political 59 Novel Dalit Novel Conclusion 4. Reclaiming Madiga Identity: Vemula Yellaiah's Kakka 73 Madiga Patriarchy Rachabanda: Symbol of Injustice Madigirkam: Productive Culture Subsects within Madigas Agrarian and Power Relations Centering the Linguistic Marginality 5. A Leftist's Dalit Novel: Kalyana Rao's Untouchable Spring 81 6. Dalit Short Stories: From Elite To MudHouse Narratives 91 The PreDalit Phase The Epochal Shift Historical Dalitness Defiance of Form Women Writers Dandora and After SubCaste Stories Identity Writing 7. Telangana, Dalits, Land Rights: A Literary Perspective 107 The Left and the Land Dalits and Land. 8. Telugu Dalit Poetry: An Overview 123 Written About Mystics Reform Nationalist The Left Writing the Self Writing About Profiles of Telugu Dalit Poets 9. Gendering Caste: Emergence of Dalit Feminism 139 The Cultural Revolt DeGendering through Education Dalit Women Writing 10. A Reading of Two Feminist Poems: An Anti Generic Critique 145 Generic Feminism Emergence of Dalit Feminism Sariend Kongu 11. Does Shit Smell When Written? The Poetics of Faeces 157 Faeces and Subhumanity Faeces as the Cultural Taboo Faeces in Literature The Sociology of Faeces Dalitisation of Aesthetic Forums 12. C.P. Brown and the Language Renaissance 171 Language Literature 13. English and Dalits 175 Pedagogic Resistance English in Developing Countries Inadequacy of Indian Languages ESL, A Failure Model Tops Down Approach Empowerment English English without English Conclusion 14. Prosifying the Poesy: A Dalit Critique of Modernization of Telugu DePrivileging the Spoken Language RePrivileging 185 the Spoken Language Colonial Reform Dialectisation In Search of Prose 15. Creolisation as Social Empowerment: Towards a Postcolonial Pedagogy Centering and Disempowerment Decentring and 199 Empowerment Pedagogic Implications Pidginising the Pedagogy The African Ideal Listen Mr. Oxford Don Right Inuff 16. 'Our exit from the Left was the beginning of Dalit writing' An interview with Vemula Yellaiah 209 Select Bibliography 223 Index 241 The Title 'Interrogating the Canon : Literature and Pedagogy of Dalits written/authored/edited by K. Purushotham', published in the year 2015. The ISBN 9789351281641 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 248 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Schuduled Tribes / Dalit / Education. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol: 248.…

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