Kusuma Satyanarayanan

Gebundenes Buch

Concealing Caste

Narratives of Passing and Personhood in Dalit Literature

Herausgeber: Lee, Joel

Beschreibung

Concealing Caste opens a window into the experience of women and men in India who, though born into communities stigmatized as 'untouchable,' are perceived as 'high caste' outside the home.

Autor

K. Satyanarayana is a professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at the English and Foreign Language University, Hyderabad, India. He co-edited two volumes of new Dalit writing: No Alphabet in Sight (2011), Steel Nibs Are Sprouting (2013), Dalit Studies (2016) and, most recently, Dalit Text (2020). His research interests are in the fields of Dalit studies, literary history, and cultural theory. Joel Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Williams College, Massachusetts, USA. He is the author of Deceptive Majority: Dalits, Hinduism, and Underground Religion (2021), and his research interests lie in the critical analysis of caste, sensory studies, popular religion, and Hindi and Urdu literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 145mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780192865243
• ISBN-10: 0192865242
• Artikelnr.: 66140770