19 mm

216 mm

140 mm

485 gr

Dalit Men's Autobiographies

Kalpaz Publications

2017

CONTENTS:- Foreword 9 Introduction 19 Notes on the Contributors 35 1. Religious Conversion as Escapism from Social Discrimination–A Study of Laxman Mane’s Autobiography Upara: An Outsider 45 Professor D. Amalraj 2. Limbale’s The Outcaste: A Poignant Interrogation into the ‘Burden of Inferiority’ 59 Dr Manjeet Rathee 3. The Audible Sighs and Visible Dreams: A Discussion of Sharan Kumar Limbale’s Akkarmashi 73 Dr Sakunthala A.I. 4. Caste Hegemony or Love? A Line of Thought on Joothan: A Dalit’s Life 79 Dr D. Murali Manohar 5. Raising Voice against Caste Distinction and Untouchability: A Study of Narendra Jadhav’s Outcaste: A Memoir 87 Dr Archana Bhattacharjee 6. Exploitation of Leather-Workers in Balbir Madhopuri’s Changiya Rukh: Against the Night 95 Dr Sadhana Agrawal 7. Peeping into the Lives of Dalit Women and Children: A Rereading of Kancha Ilaiah’s Why I am Not a Hindu 103 Dr Narendra Kumar 8. When the Dumb Learn to Speak: (Re)-Reading Four Dalit Autobiographical Excerpts Recognising the ‘Alternative Narra