TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zafir,Deeba
TI  - Caste and the city: urban aspirations and sensibility in Dalit short fiction in Hindi 
SN  - 9781003488804
U1  - 891.4/3309352694 23/eng/20240325
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Short stories, Hindi
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Hindi fiction
KW  - Dalit authors
KW  - Dalits in literature
KW  - Caste in literature
KW  - City and town life in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic
N2  - "This 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 the 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 as well as 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"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003488804
ER  -