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020			_a9781032935195
040			_aSDCL _cSDCL
041			_2eng _aeng
084			_aY5927 R5
100			_aZafir, Deeba _9751579
245			_aCaste and the city : _bUrban aspirations and sensibility in hindi dalit short fiction
260			_aLondon : _bRoutledge, _c2025.
300			_avii, 131p.
520			_aThis book looks at Dalits in the city and examines the nature of Dalit aspirations as well as the making of an urban sensibility through an analysis of hitherto unexamined short stories of some of the first- and second-generation as well as contemporary Dalit writers in Hindi. Tracing the origins of the emergence of Dalit critical consciousness to the arrival of the Dalits into the print medium, after their migration to the city, this book examines their transactions with modernity and the emancipatory promises it held out to them. It highlights the literary tropes that mark their fiction, specifically those short stories which take up urban themes, and shows how even in seemingly caste-neutral spaces caste discrimination is present. The book also undertakes an examination of the stories by contemporary Dalit women writers in Hindi – Rajat Rani Meenu and Anita Bharti – who have posed a radical challenge to both the mainstream feminist movement and the Dalit movement. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of South Asian literature, especially Hindi literature, Dalit studies, subaltern history, postcolonial studies, political science, and sociology as well as the informed general reader.
650			_aHindi fiction -- Dalit authors -- History and criticism _9811288
650			_aShort stories
650			_aHindi -- History and criticism _9811289
650			_aLiterary Criticism / Asian / Indic _9811290
650			_aLiterary Criticism / Modern / 21st Century _9811291
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999			_c1309171 _d1309171