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.
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.
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