As complex as they are political, the characters in Ajay navaria's stories - ranging from a Brahmin Peon to a Dalit male prostitute - are neither black nor white, neither clearly good nor evil. They inhabit a grey Zone; they linger in the transitional passageway between past object and future subject, casteism and democracy. Translated from the Hindi by Laura brueck, unclaimed terrain heralds the arrival of a bold new voice in Indian literature.
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2019 July
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Ajay Navaria is the author of two collections of short stories, Patkatha aur Anya Kahaniyan (2006) and Yes Sir (2012), and a novel, Udhar ke Log (2008). He has been associated with the premier Hindi literary journal, Hans. Navaria teaches in the Hindi department at Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi. Laura Brueck is Chair, Asian Languages and Cultures Department, at Northwestern University, Illinois. Her book, Writing Resistance: The Rhetorical Imagination of Hindi Dalit Literature (2014) analyzes the vernacular discursive sphere of contemporary Hindi Dalit literature
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