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Caste and the City: Urban Aspirations and Sensibility in Hindi Dalit Short Fiction

Caste and the City: Urban Aspirations and Sensibility in Hindi Dalit Short Fiction

Zafir, Deeba

Paperback

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1032786426
ISBN13: 9781032786421
Publisher: Routledge India
Published: Aug 29 2025
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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 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.

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