Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-235) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: just anger -- Part I. Mahasweta Devi: 1. Poor, not criminals: Devi against legal Orientalism; 2. "How does a law help?" Struggles for citizenship in the forests; 3. Modernity and modernism: "real" political subjects -- Part 2. Arundhati Roy: 4. "The cost of dams": writing collective resistance; 5. Privatizing the commons, orientalizing adivasis; 6. Storytelling and the metamorphosis of literature -- Part 3. Sampat Pal: 7. Warrior in a pink sari: a subaltern autobiography; 8. Acts of violence or acts of citizenship? -- Part 4. Between Theory and Practice: 9. Performing citizenship: resignifying literature; 10. Acts of angry writing : ethics, subjectivity, and agency.
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