Citizenship in Dalit and Indigenous Australian Literatures

This book examines the difference in citizenship as experienced by the communities of Dalits in India and Aboriginals in Australia through an analysis of select lit by their authors. It will be of interest to Dalit and Aboriginal Lit, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies and World Lit, SA Studies and citizenship.

List of contents

Part I: Understanding Citizenship(s) Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Citizenship and its Vagaries Part II: Recasting the Discursive Denial of Citizenship in Dalit and Indigenous Australian Literatures Chapter 3. Caste as the Marker of Citizenship in Baby Kamble's The Prisons We Broke; Chapter 4. Race and Prejudice: Discursive Denial of Citizenship in Alice Nannup's When the Pelican Laughed Part III: From Discursive to Performative: Undoing the Performative Denial of Citizenship in Dalit and Indigenous Australian Literatures Chapter 5. Caste as a logic of denial: Rescripting Denial in Aravind Malagatti's Government Brahmana; Chapter 6. Racialised Performative Denial of Citizenship in Gordon Briscoe's Racial Folly; Chapter 7. Beyond Race and Caste: Towards a Performative Equal Citizenship

About the author

Riya Mukherjee is an Assistant Professor of English in S.S Khanna Girls' Degree College, University of Allahabad, India.

Product details

• Authors: Riya Mukherjee, Riya (University of Allahabad Mukherjee
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9781032292915
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3229291-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia ASAA South Asian Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Society & culture: general, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, Regional Studies, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Regional / International studies, Society and culture: general, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Australasia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General