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Dalits, aboriginals, subalterns, slaves, serviles, tribals, etc., are connected with an umbilical... more Dalits, aboriginals, subalterns, slaves, serviles, tribals, etc., are connected with an umbilical cord of the same section of the hapless society. Dalits and subalterns in India, aboriginals in Australia and Canada, Afro-Asians in the UK and the USA have sprouted and taken full-fledged areas of creative aesthetics in literature. A plethora of articles, books, monographs, autobiographies, memoirs, novels and poems have emerged as powerful visible forms of protest against the prolonged and chequered history of agony, anguish, exploitation, cruelty, maltreatment, malice and malevolence. Migration from one place to another has taken place to protect themselves from and protest against the sovereign/superior/colonizing and consumerist class. Earlier, misuse and mishandling of the marginalized communities became the subject matter of literary practices by few including the widely accepted 'holy trinity', M. R. Anand, R. K. Narayan and Raja Rao, who penned down and set the milestones in the literary sphere. With the passage of time, people from the beleaguered and subjugated class came forward to protest their subdued status in the society. They professed their creative articulations avowedly and started writing in the indigenous languages in several regions of India. Since they confined their writings in a particular language/dialect, the readership, therefore, was restricted to the speakers of the same language or was cramped in the same territory. Thanks to the translation studies in India which emerged from the late nineteenth century, the original texts in Hindi, Braj, Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Haryanvi, Rajasthani in northern India and Kannada, Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam in south India received recognition by the academicians, researchers and creative writers. Thus, the need of translation came to the fore to get wider readership. When many bilingual writers began writing both in their native languages and in English, the publishers, too, came forward to encourage them. The writers, poets and playwrights-cum-activists, such as Ananthamurthy, Ramanujan, Karnad, Manoj Das, Niranjan Mohanty, and Arun Kolatkar, Kamla Das and Mamta Kalia, carried forward the legacy of bi/multilingualism of Tagore, Firaq Gorakhpuri and Bachchan. But there is a brigade of authors, poets, novelists, travel writers, especially from pre-colonial India, who originally wrote and published in their native languages. Afterwards, there emerged a line of academicians who attempted in translation to get esteemed degrees, fellowships and certificates of appreciation. Few institutions of high approbation like Sahitya Akademy, New Delhi, were founded to promote and promulgate vernacular works in translation. Some publishers, such as the Writers Workshop, Seagull Books,
Panthers Paw , 2022
'Introduction' to '14 April: Telugu Dalit Short Stories' critically presents the development of t... more 'Introduction' to '14 April: Telugu Dalit Short Stories' critically presents the development of the genre, Teluigu Dalit Short Sories
Kakatiya Journal of Historical Studies. Vol. XV. No.1 , 2020
NEW DELHI: CRITICAL QUEST, 2013
New Delhi: Kalpaz Publications, 2020
Economic and Political Weekly, 2014
Economic and Political Weekly , 2010
Books by purushotham k
SouthSide Books, 2023
The tales in 'Speaking Sandals' have fascinating vignettes of Dalit folk-lore and oral history. W... more The tales in 'Speaking Sandals' have fascinating vignettes of Dalit folk-lore and oral history. When they first appeared in 1989, they were heralded as the first outpouring of the Madiga voice in Telugu literature. Writing with the imagery and cadence native to his community, the late professor Endluri Sudhakar’s stories, deftly translated by K. Purushotham, are told in an endearing style of visits to his native village and reminiscing conversations with relatives and elders. He writes about origin myths, drummers, fierce fighters, skilled artisans, strong matriarchs and other fascinating characters. Underpinning the stories is a robust awareness of the constant re-negotiations of caste hierarchies. The book, when first published in 1999, portended two mojour shifts in literary and social fronts, namely elevating sociolect to the literary level and asserting the caste identity, both of which became respectable in the times to come, setting the trend in political terms.
Click the link for reading an extract from 'Speaking Sandals'
https://indianculturalforum.in/2023/08/24/speaking-sandals/
Copies available globally on Amazon
Kalpaz, 2016
About The Book:- Interrogating the Canon: Literature and Pedagogy of Dalits is a collection of re... more About The Book:- Interrogating the Canon: Literature and Pedagogy of Dalits is a collection of research articles written on different occasions primarily exploring the alternative histories of language and literature informed by the postcolonial thrust of interrogating the canon. Though varied in themes, the running thread of the articles has been critiquing the exclusivist nature of the literary establishment, and arguing a case for literary inclusion of the dalit writing. The thrust of the dalit writing being mainstreaming the marginal, the author of this book approaches the subject with a three pronged focus: underplaying the mainstream writing; exploring the politics of subordination and struggles for equality; and academicising the dalit writings. The articles in this collection will be of immense use to scholars, teachers and others working in the area.
About The Author:- K. Purushotham is professor and Head, Department of English, Kakatiya University, Warangal, Telangana. He has published extensively in the areas of ELT, Indian literature and theory. Some of his recent publications include Oxford India Anthology of Telugu Dalit Writing (OUP, in the press); English for Fluency (Orient BlackSwan); English for Employability, (Orient BlackSwan); Black Lilies: An Anthology of Telugu Dalit Poetry (Critical Quest). He translates literary works from Telugu to English. Besides editing Kakatiya Journal of English Studies (KJES), he has guest edited special issues of Creative Forum; Journal of Literature and Aesthetics; Literary Insight; Scholar Critic; Literary Vibes; Revaluations. He has carried out Major Research Projects for UGC and ICSSR, New Delhi.
Contents:- Acknowledgements 9 Preface 11 Introduction 19 Subordinating the Language Bhakti Writings Social Reformation The Dalit Challenge Untouchability within Untouchability 1. Social Movements and Identity Formation The Roots Adi Movements Ambedkar Conclusion 33 2. Movement Literature: A Dalit Critique
The book is available globally on
https://www.amazon.in/INTERROGATING-CANON-Literature-Pedagogy-Dalits/dp/9351281647
Panther's Paw, 2022
The stories are historical in their sense of representing the h... more The stories are historical in their sense of representing the historicity of the oppression in optimistic and assertive terms, against which Eleanor Zelloit viewed the Marathi writings as “a little more pessimistic and dark in tone than . . . the Dalit movement itself.” Telugu Dalit writings in general are not pessimistic; they represent the contemporary Dalit movement. Telugu Dalit short stories, authentic and true to life, are vibrant and promising, adding new collections and authors to the corpus that is the genre.
The stories included in this volume address fundamental questions such as inter and intra-caste conflicts, identity, culture and protest. Nallala Laxmirajam, who exemplifies in “A Festival of Talk,” the vicious nexus between the ‘empowerment’ of the Dalit women, sex and the hegemony of the upper castes in villages. The narrative voice of a dead Dalit speaks the way he had been victimised by the sex-caste interface in Madduri Nageshbabu’s “The Cattle Shed” and Vemula Yellaiah’s “Playing Pretend.” Kalyana Rao’s “Yellanna” and Yendluri Sudhakar’s “The Heroes of the Untouchable Hamlets” address the question of humiliation and untouchability and the violence unleashed against Dalits. Paidi Tereshbabu’s “Friday” and Boya Jangaiah’s “The Idols” deal with the theme of ignorance and economic exploitation, addressing aspects of orthodoxies. Kalekuri Prasad’s “The Weed” is a portrayal of child labour, characteristic of Dalit families denying children the pleasure of childhood and education. Pasunuri Ravindar’s “What Caste are You” addresses the subtle relationship between Dalit and backward castes through the travails Dalits encounter living in rented houses in cities. The plight of Bandodu, alms seekers from the Madigas in “The Crow” by Kolakaluri Enoch is a rare portrayal of the poverty of Dalit sub-castes. The stories presented in the volume are dense in representation, varied in themes, novel in techniques and are more developed in comparison to Dalit poetry, novel and drama in Telugu.
However, a limitation of the genre has been that the writings are mostly by two sub-castes, Mala and Madiga out of the fifty-nine Dalit sub-castes and the remaining Dalit sub-castes are yet to write for want of literacy and agency. Telugu Dalit writing would have truly come of age when even these castes – the ostracised among the ostracized – begin writing about themselves.
K. Purushotham
The book is availableon
https://champaca.in/products/14-april-telugu-dalit-short-stories?variant=39866144882723
Hawakal Publishers, 2021
Never before has the marginalization of a Dalit within a Dalit family been written about as in Ka... more Never before has the marginalization of a Dalit within a Dalit family been written about as in Kakka. The Madiga daily encounter with landlords is described in stark terms. Working as a farm hand, and virtually an orphan—his father dead and his mother re-married after being punished by her own kin for alleged adultery, the lonely Kakka is surprised to discover that he is not entitled to madigirkam, the Madiga right to serve the landlords, as he belongs to a small sect within the Madiga caste. When young Kakka yearns to know what madigirkam is, his mentor (whose granddaughter he marries subsequently) narrates what madigirkam entails. In villages of the Telangana region, the Madigas used to render madigirkam to the landlords by turns. The novel is significant in recording the slavery and the productive work Madigas render to the landlords.
The book is available globally on
https://www.amazon.in/Kakka-Dalit-novel-Purushotham-K/dp/9391431070
Kakatiya University, 2020
Lack of good translations is one of the reasons for low visibility of Indian literature in genera... more Lack of good translations is one of the reasons for low visibility of Indian literature in general and Telugu in particular. All the bhasha literatures need global visibility since each of it has its own poetics in the way it negotiates the modern nation. Therefore it becomes all the more important for translations to reject universalised, global and Standard English. What is needed in translations therefore is to explore the ways of bringing out the ‘interiority’ of the bhasha literatures.
Bhasha literatures traverse a long way before they are archived for the posterity. Unlike the English works, the Indian publications in regional languages do not enjoy the patronage of the readers in monetary terms. From getting published in the periodicals and small magazines, the authors struggle hard to self-publish their anthologies investing their hard earned money. To add to this, the authors find it difficult to market and circulate their publications. Anthologisation, translation and publication of the bhasha literatures in English have a long way to go.
Kalpaz Publications, 2020
Women autobiographies, a generic term for life narratives, histories, memoirs, testimonios and ... more Women autobiographies, a generic term for life narratives, histories, memoirs, testimonios and hagiographies, has emerged as a genre, consequent to the postmodernist thrust on the identity and the attendant politics surrounding it. Primarily aimed at communicating the subordinated predicament of women, the writings claim the agency. Based on memory, experience and identity, women narrators reproduce the cultural modes of self-narrating, simultaneously critiquing the status quo. When it comes to the personal lives of the women, there is nothing personal about women’s personal lives: the personal is political too. Women, writing the autobiography is a means of finding the agency. It is, therefore, worth exploring as to what compels women write autobiographies.
Ahead of their Times: Essays on Women Autobiography in India is an attempt in this direction. The work focuses on select women autobiographies covering those autobiographies written from 1876, the first woman autobiography ever written, to the ones written in the new millennium, encompassing a period of century and a quarter. It includes the works of Indian women autobiographers that include Rassundari Devi, Pa Visalam, Urmila Pawar, Laxminarayan Tripathi, Pinki Virani, Manju Bala, Anjum Jamarud Habib, A. Revathi, Binodini Dasi, besides several other Dalit and transgender writers. The autobiographers in the book are from either the marginalised or the stigmatised sections of the society. This book merits significance because of the fact that the writers of the essays selected those women autobiographers, who are least discussed or not discussed earlier. The contributors include Akshaya K. Rath, Ananya Parida, Aparna Lanjewar Bose, R. Azhagarasan, Indranil Acharya, H. Kalpana Rao, Lahari Behera, Meera Rajagopalan, Neha Arora, Sanjiv Kumar, Sanjukta Das Gupta, Vandana Pathak, Ujjwal Jana and Varsha Ayyar, who examined the autobiographies in terms of challenging the hegemony in all the forms, including class, caste and gender, re-locating their own identity in respective categories. They debunk the set patterns of female writers. The authors of the essays present the analyses of the histories of politicised selves in respective autobiographies. What is unique about the interpretation is that instead of reading the autobiographies as the usually known creative or imaginative writing, the authors explore the works in opposition to the masculinised, rational and objective form, which infact, undermines the experiential category. They set up impersonal protocols of the public and political disputes. The authors see how women actually end up breaking into these formal structures, and thus change the rules of the game.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
1. Caste, Gender and Life Narratives
Varsha Ayyar, Center for Labour Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai
2. Politics of Deviant Sexuality: Me Hijra/Me Laxmi
Akshaya Rath, National Institute of Technology, Odisha
3. Rassundari Devi's My Life
Sanjukta Das Gupta, Calcutta University, Kolkatta
4. Indian Lesbian Writing and the Question of Genre
R. Azhagarasan, Madras University, Chennai
5. Recognition of ‘Transgender’ as ‘Third Gender’: Some Reflections
Sanjiv Kumar, Central University of Haryana, Jant Pali village
6. Pa Visalam’s Autobiographical Novel
Meera Rajagopalan, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai
7. Narrativizing Rape: Issues, Challenges and Possibilities in Aruna’s Story
Lahari Behera, Pondicherry Central University, Puduchery
8. The Politics of Representation: Revisiting Dalit Feminism in Dalit Women Autobiographies of Maharashtra
Aparna Lanjewar Bose, EFL University, Hyderabad
9. The Dynamics of Dalit Fiction and Autobiography: A Reading of Manju Bala’s Dwando (Conflict)
Indranil Acharya, Vidyasagar University, Midnapur
10. Analysis and Performance: The Pedagogy of Autobiographies
H. Kalpana Rao, Pondicherry Central University, Puduchery
11. Incarcerated in Person but not in Spirit: Prison Narrative of Anjum Zamarud Habib
Vandana Pathak, A.D. & SmT. R.P. College for Women, Nagpur
12. A World Beyond Pink and Blue: New Perspectives on Gender Roles
Neha Arora, Rajasthan Central University
13. Ujjwal Jana
The book is available globally on
https://www.amazon.com/Ahead-their-Times-Essays-Autobiography/dp/B081RCDNK3
Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan ISBN: 978 81 250 5560, 2014
English for Employability contains selections that the ESL students, hailing from the rural, vern... more English for Employability contains selections that the ESL students, hailing from the rural, vernacular, poor and diverse social backgrounds, connect themselves to effortlessly. Replacing the grand narratives, the persona involved in each of the prose texts is the subject and maker of the text. The texts help in realising the latent potential of the learners. The book, intended for the undergraduate students of arts, commerce, science, engineering, pharmacy and management, represents the corresponding domains. Representative of the gender, class and the rural-urban divide, the selections are inclusive in nature. Besides incorporating the communication skill into the book, the aspects of spoken English have been taken care of supported by an audio CD.
Bareilly: Prakash Book Depot, 1996
Published in 1996, Objective English Literature has been the earliest and rarest of its kind in p... more Published in 1996, Objective English Literature has been the earliest and rarest of its kind in presenting English literature in objective form. Literature, which is subjective in understanding and interpretation, needs to be presented objectively for reliable and accurate testing of the students’ literary competence for various purposes. This book is considered a quick reference source on English literature.
Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2013
English for Fluency is a comprehensive course for students of general English at the undergraduat... more English for Fluency is a comprehensive course for students of general English at the undergraduate level. The poetry and prose pieces have been specifically selected to teach the learner English through culturally familiar texts drawn from a wide range of genres presenting themes and attitudes that are nearer home and therefore easier to comprehend. The activities that accompany these texts aim to strengthen the learner’ s reading comprehension skills as well as offer them an opportunity to develop their critical appreciation skills. The other sections of the book focus on improving writing, listening and speaking skills as well as grammar and vocabulary to help learners achieve both fluency and accuracy. The CD that accompanies the book contains recordings of the texts for the listening exercises and sample dialogues that illustrate how spoken English is used to perform some common communicative functions.
Delhi: Kalpaz Publications, , 2015
Interrogating the Canon: Literature and Pedagogy of Dalits is a collection of research articles ... more Interrogating the Canon: Literature and Pedagogy of Dalits is a collection of research articles written on different occasions primarily exploring the alternative histories of language and literature informed by the postcolonial thrust of interrogating the canon. Though varied in themes, the running thread of the articles has been critiquing the exclusivist nature of the literary establishment, and arguing a case for literary inclusion of the dalit writing. The thrust of the dalit writing being mainstreaming the marginal, the author of this book approaches the subject with a three pronged focus: underplaying the mainstream writing; exploring the politics of subordination and struggles for equality; and academicising the dalit writings. The articles in this collection will be of immense use to scholars, teachers and others working in the area.
Dalits, aboriginals, subalterns, slaves, serviles, tribals, etc., are connected with an umbilical... more Dalits, aboriginals, subalterns, slaves, serviles, tribals, etc., are connected with an umbilical cord of the same section of the hapless society. Dalits and subalterns in India, aboriginals in Australia and Canada, Afro-Asians in the UK and the USA have sprouted and taken full-fledged areas of creative aesthetics in literature. A plethora of articles, books, monographs, autobiographies, memoirs, novels and poems have emerged as powerful visible forms of protest against the prolonged and chequered history of agony, anguish, exploitation, cruelty, maltreatment, malice and malevolence. Migration from one place to another has taken place to protect themselves from and protest against the sovereign/superior/colonizing and consumerist class. Earlier, misuse and mishandling of the marginalized communities became the subject matter of literary practices by few including the widely accepted 'holy trinity', M. R. Anand, R. K. Narayan and Raja Rao, who penned down and set the milestones in the literary sphere. With the passage of time, people from the beleaguered and subjugated class came forward to protest their subdued status in the society. They professed their creative articulations avowedly and started writing in the indigenous languages in several regions of India. Since they confined their writings in a particular language/dialect, the readership, therefore, was restricted to the speakers of the same language or was cramped in the same territory. Thanks to the translation studies in India which emerged from the late nineteenth century, the original texts in Hindi, Braj, Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Haryanvi, Rajasthani in northern India and Kannada, Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam in south India received recognition by the academicians, researchers and creative writers. Thus, the need of translation came to the fore to get wider readership. When many bilingual writers began writing both in their native languages and in English, the publishers, too, came forward to encourage them. The writers, poets and playwrights-cum-activists, such as Ananthamurthy, Ramanujan, Karnad, Manoj Das, Niranjan Mohanty, and Arun Kolatkar, Kamla Das and Mamta Kalia, carried forward the legacy of bi/multilingualism of Tagore, Firaq Gorakhpuri and Bachchan. But there is a brigade of authors, poets, novelists, travel writers, especially from pre-colonial India, who originally wrote and published in their native languages. Afterwards, there emerged a line of academicians who attempted in translation to get esteemed degrees, fellowships and certificates of appreciation. Few institutions of high approbation like Sahitya Akademy, New Delhi, were founded to promote and promulgate vernacular works in translation. Some publishers, such as the Writers Workshop, Seagull Books,
Panthers Paw , 2022
'Introduction' to '14 April: Telugu Dalit Short Stories' critically presents the development of t... more 'Introduction' to '14 April: Telugu Dalit Short Stories' critically presents the development of the genre, Teluigu Dalit Short Sories
Kakatiya Journal of Historical Studies. Vol. XV. No.1 , 2020
NEW DELHI: CRITICAL QUEST, 2013
New Delhi: Kalpaz Publications, 2020
Economic and Political Weekly, 2014
Economic and Political Weekly , 2010
SouthSide Books, 2023
The tales in 'Speaking Sandals' have fascinating vignettes of Dalit folk-lore and oral history. W... more The tales in 'Speaking Sandals' have fascinating vignettes of Dalit folk-lore and oral history. When they first appeared in 1989, they were heralded as the first outpouring of the Madiga voice in Telugu literature. Writing with the imagery and cadence native to his community, the late professor Endluri Sudhakar’s stories, deftly translated by K. Purushotham, are told in an endearing style of visits to his native village and reminiscing conversations with relatives and elders. He writes about origin myths, drummers, fierce fighters, skilled artisans, strong matriarchs and other fascinating characters. Underpinning the stories is a robust awareness of the constant re-negotiations of caste hierarchies. The book, when first published in 1999, portended two mojour shifts in literary and social fronts, namely elevating sociolect to the literary level and asserting the caste identity, both of which became respectable in the times to come, setting the trend in political terms.
Click the link for reading an extract from 'Speaking Sandals'
https://indianculturalforum.in/2023/08/24/speaking-sandals/
Copies available globally on Amazon
Kalpaz, 2016
About The Book:- Interrogating the Canon: Literature and Pedagogy of Dalits is a collection of re... more About The Book:- Interrogating the Canon: Literature and Pedagogy of Dalits is a collection of research articles written on different occasions primarily exploring the alternative histories of language and literature informed by the postcolonial thrust of interrogating the canon. Though varied in themes, the running thread of the articles has been critiquing the exclusivist nature of the literary establishment, and arguing a case for literary inclusion of the dalit writing. The thrust of the dalit writing being mainstreaming the marginal, the author of this book approaches the subject with a three pronged focus: underplaying the mainstream writing; exploring the politics of subordination and struggles for equality; and academicising the dalit writings. The articles in this collection will be of immense use to scholars, teachers and others working in the area.
About The Author:- K. Purushotham is professor and Head, Department of English, Kakatiya University, Warangal, Telangana. He has published extensively in the areas of ELT, Indian literature and theory. Some of his recent publications include Oxford India Anthology of Telugu Dalit Writing (OUP, in the press); English for Fluency (Orient BlackSwan); English for Employability, (Orient BlackSwan); Black Lilies: An Anthology of Telugu Dalit Poetry (Critical Quest). He translates literary works from Telugu to English. Besides editing Kakatiya Journal of English Studies (KJES), he has guest edited special issues of Creative Forum; Journal of Literature and Aesthetics; Literary Insight; Scholar Critic; Literary Vibes; Revaluations. He has carried out Major Research Projects for UGC and ICSSR, New Delhi.
Contents:- Acknowledgements 9 Preface 11 Introduction 19 Subordinating the Language Bhakti Writings Social Reformation The Dalit Challenge Untouchability within Untouchability 1. Social Movements and Identity Formation The Roots Adi Movements Ambedkar Conclusion 33 2. Movement Literature: A Dalit Critique
The book is available globally on
https://www.amazon.in/INTERROGATING-CANON-Literature-Pedagogy-Dalits/dp/9351281647
Panther's Paw, 2022
The stories are historical in their sense of representing the h... more The stories are historical in their sense of representing the historicity of the oppression in optimistic and assertive terms, against which Eleanor Zelloit viewed the Marathi writings as “a little more pessimistic and dark in tone than . . . the Dalit movement itself.” Telugu Dalit writings in general are not pessimistic; they represent the contemporary Dalit movement. Telugu Dalit short stories, authentic and true to life, are vibrant and promising, adding new collections and authors to the corpus that is the genre.
The stories included in this volume address fundamental questions such as inter and intra-caste conflicts, identity, culture and protest. Nallala Laxmirajam, who exemplifies in “A Festival of Talk,” the vicious nexus between the ‘empowerment’ of the Dalit women, sex and the hegemony of the upper castes in villages. The narrative voice of a dead Dalit speaks the way he had been victimised by the sex-caste interface in Madduri Nageshbabu’s “The Cattle Shed” and Vemula Yellaiah’s “Playing Pretend.” Kalyana Rao’s “Yellanna” and Yendluri Sudhakar’s “The Heroes of the Untouchable Hamlets” address the question of humiliation and untouchability and the violence unleashed against Dalits. Paidi Tereshbabu’s “Friday” and Boya Jangaiah’s “The Idols” deal with the theme of ignorance and economic exploitation, addressing aspects of orthodoxies. Kalekuri Prasad’s “The Weed” is a portrayal of child labour, characteristic of Dalit families denying children the pleasure of childhood and education. Pasunuri Ravindar’s “What Caste are You” addresses the subtle relationship between Dalit and backward castes through the travails Dalits encounter living in rented houses in cities. The plight of Bandodu, alms seekers from the Madigas in “The Crow” by Kolakaluri Enoch is a rare portrayal of the poverty of Dalit sub-castes. The stories presented in the volume are dense in representation, varied in themes, novel in techniques and are more developed in comparison to Dalit poetry, novel and drama in Telugu.
However, a limitation of the genre has been that the writings are mostly by two sub-castes, Mala and Madiga out of the fifty-nine Dalit sub-castes and the remaining Dalit sub-castes are yet to write for want of literacy and agency. Telugu Dalit writing would have truly come of age when even these castes – the ostracised among the ostracized – begin writing about themselves.
K. Purushotham
The book is availableon
https://champaca.in/products/14-april-telugu-dalit-short-stories?variant=39866144882723
Hawakal Publishers, 2021
Never before has the marginalization of a Dalit within a Dalit family been written about as in Ka... more Never before has the marginalization of a Dalit within a Dalit family been written about as in Kakka. The Madiga daily encounter with landlords is described in stark terms. Working as a farm hand, and virtually an orphan—his father dead and his mother re-married after being punished by her own kin for alleged adultery, the lonely Kakka is surprised to discover that he is not entitled to madigirkam, the Madiga right to serve the landlords, as he belongs to a small sect within the Madiga caste. When young Kakka yearns to know what madigirkam is, his mentor (whose granddaughter he marries subsequently) narrates what madigirkam entails. In villages of the Telangana region, the Madigas used to render madigirkam to the landlords by turns. The novel is significant in recording the slavery and the productive work Madigas render to the landlords.
The book is available globally on
https://www.amazon.in/Kakka-Dalit-novel-Purushotham-K/dp/9391431070
Kakatiya University, 2020
Lack of good translations is one of the reasons for low visibility of Indian literature in genera... more Lack of good translations is one of the reasons for low visibility of Indian literature in general and Telugu in particular. All the bhasha literatures need global visibility since each of it has its own poetics in the way it negotiates the modern nation. Therefore it becomes all the more important for translations to reject universalised, global and Standard English. What is needed in translations therefore is to explore the ways of bringing out the ‘interiority’ of the bhasha literatures.
Bhasha literatures traverse a long way before they are archived for the posterity. Unlike the English works, the Indian publications in regional languages do not enjoy the patronage of the readers in monetary terms. From getting published in the periodicals and small magazines, the authors struggle hard to self-publish their anthologies investing their hard earned money. To add to this, the authors find it difficult to market and circulate their publications. Anthologisation, translation and publication of the bhasha literatures in English have a long way to go.
Kalpaz Publications, 2020
Women autobiographies, a generic term for life narratives, histories, memoirs, testimonios and ... more Women autobiographies, a generic term for life narratives, histories, memoirs, testimonios and hagiographies, has emerged as a genre, consequent to the postmodernist thrust on the identity and the attendant politics surrounding it. Primarily aimed at communicating the subordinated predicament of women, the writings claim the agency. Based on memory, experience and identity, women narrators reproduce the cultural modes of self-narrating, simultaneously critiquing the status quo. When it comes to the personal lives of the women, there is nothing personal about women’s personal lives: the personal is political too. Women, writing the autobiography is a means of finding the agency. It is, therefore, worth exploring as to what compels women write autobiographies.
Ahead of their Times: Essays on Women Autobiography in India is an attempt in this direction. The work focuses on select women autobiographies covering those autobiographies written from 1876, the first woman autobiography ever written, to the ones written in the new millennium, encompassing a period of century and a quarter. It includes the works of Indian women autobiographers that include Rassundari Devi, Pa Visalam, Urmila Pawar, Laxminarayan Tripathi, Pinki Virani, Manju Bala, Anjum Jamarud Habib, A. Revathi, Binodini Dasi, besides several other Dalit and transgender writers. The autobiographers in the book are from either the marginalised or the stigmatised sections of the society. This book merits significance because of the fact that the writers of the essays selected those women autobiographers, who are least discussed or not discussed earlier. The contributors include Akshaya K. Rath, Ananya Parida, Aparna Lanjewar Bose, R. Azhagarasan, Indranil Acharya, H. Kalpana Rao, Lahari Behera, Meera Rajagopalan, Neha Arora, Sanjiv Kumar, Sanjukta Das Gupta, Vandana Pathak, Ujjwal Jana and Varsha Ayyar, who examined the autobiographies in terms of challenging the hegemony in all the forms, including class, caste and gender, re-locating their own identity in respective categories. They debunk the set patterns of female writers. The authors of the essays present the analyses of the histories of politicised selves in respective autobiographies. What is unique about the interpretation is that instead of reading the autobiographies as the usually known creative or imaginative writing, the authors explore the works in opposition to the masculinised, rational and objective form, which infact, undermines the experiential category. They set up impersonal protocols of the public and political disputes. The authors see how women actually end up breaking into these formal structures, and thus change the rules of the game.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
1. Caste, Gender and Life Narratives
Varsha Ayyar, Center for Labour Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai
2. Politics of Deviant Sexuality: Me Hijra/Me Laxmi
Akshaya Rath, National Institute of Technology, Odisha
3. Rassundari Devi's My Life
Sanjukta Das Gupta, Calcutta University, Kolkatta
4. Indian Lesbian Writing and the Question of Genre
R. Azhagarasan, Madras University, Chennai
5. Recognition of ‘Transgender’ as ‘Third Gender’: Some Reflections
Sanjiv Kumar, Central University of Haryana, Jant Pali village
6. Pa Visalam’s Autobiographical Novel
Meera Rajagopalan, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai
7. Narrativizing Rape: Issues, Challenges and Possibilities in Aruna’s Story
Lahari Behera, Pondicherry Central University, Puduchery
8. The Politics of Representation: Revisiting Dalit Feminism in Dalit Women Autobiographies of Maharashtra
Aparna Lanjewar Bose, EFL University, Hyderabad
9. The Dynamics of Dalit Fiction and Autobiography: A Reading of Manju Bala’s Dwando (Conflict)
Indranil Acharya, Vidyasagar University, Midnapur
10. Analysis and Performance: The Pedagogy of Autobiographies
H. Kalpana Rao, Pondicherry Central University, Puduchery
11. Incarcerated in Person but not in Spirit: Prison Narrative of Anjum Zamarud Habib
Vandana Pathak, A.D. & SmT. R.P. College for Women, Nagpur
12. A World Beyond Pink and Blue: New Perspectives on Gender Roles
Neha Arora, Rajasthan Central University
13. Ujjwal Jana
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Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan ISBN: 978 81 250 5560, 2014
English for Employability contains selections that the ESL students, hailing from the rural, vern... more English for Employability contains selections that the ESL students, hailing from the rural, vernacular, poor and diverse social backgrounds, connect themselves to effortlessly. Replacing the grand narratives, the persona involved in each of the prose texts is the subject and maker of the text. The texts help in realising the latent potential of the learners. The book, intended for the undergraduate students of arts, commerce, science, engineering, pharmacy and management, represents the corresponding domains. Representative of the gender, class and the rural-urban divide, the selections are inclusive in nature. Besides incorporating the communication skill into the book, the aspects of spoken English have been taken care of supported by an audio CD.
Bareilly: Prakash Book Depot, 1996
Published in 1996, Objective English Literature has been the earliest and rarest of its kind in p... more Published in 1996, Objective English Literature has been the earliest and rarest of its kind in presenting English literature in objective form. Literature, which is subjective in understanding and interpretation, needs to be presented objectively for reliable and accurate testing of the students’ literary competence for various purposes. This book is considered a quick reference source on English literature.
Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2013
English for Fluency is a comprehensive course for students of general English at the undergraduat... more English for Fluency is a comprehensive course for students of general English at the undergraduate level. The poetry and prose pieces have been specifically selected to teach the learner English through culturally familiar texts drawn from a wide range of genres presenting themes and attitudes that are nearer home and therefore easier to comprehend. The activities that accompany these texts aim to strengthen the learner’ s reading comprehension skills as well as offer them an opportunity to develop their critical appreciation skills. The other sections of the book focus on improving writing, listening and speaking skills as well as grammar and vocabulary to help learners achieve both fluency and accuracy. The CD that accompanies the book contains recordings of the texts for the listening exercises and sample dialogues that illustrate how spoken English is used to perform some common communicative functions.
Delhi: Kalpaz Publications, , 2015
Interrogating the Canon: Literature and Pedagogy of Dalits is a collection of research articles ... more Interrogating the Canon: Literature and Pedagogy of Dalits is a collection of research articles written on different occasions primarily exploring the alternative histories of language and literature informed by the postcolonial thrust of interrogating the canon. Though varied in themes, the running thread of the articles has been critiquing the exclusivist nature of the literary establishment, and arguing a case for literary inclusion of the dalit writing. The thrust of the dalit writing being mainstreaming the marginal, the author of this book approaches the subject with a three pronged focus: underplaying the mainstream writing; exploring the politics of subordination and struggles for equality; and academicising the dalit writings. The articles in this collection will be of immense use to scholars, teachers and others working in the area.
New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2016
The Oxford India Anthology of Telugu Dalit Writing showcases the works of nearly eighty Telugu Da... more The Oxford India Anthology of Telugu Dalit Writing showcases the works of nearly eighty Telugu Dalit writers and public intellectuals. It presents Dalit perspectives on caste oppression, their stinging critique of Hinduism and the Left, and their angst against a social order that relegated them to a life of abject poverty by ignoring their culture, literature, and history. Representing nearly a century of Dalit writing and movements, the thought-provoking selections range from songs and poems to short stories, excerpts from novels, critical writings, and more.
Lulu Publications, 2019
English being a language spoken by 1.5 billion (twenty percentage) of the global population, the ... more English being a language spoken by 1.5 billion (twenty percentage) of the global population, the teaching of English as a Second Language (ESL) has undergone a radical change ever since the globalization has set in as the cultural and the business phenomenon. In the beginnings, the teaching of English, being one of the expanding disciplines, started off as teaching grammar and literature, through the popular method called the Grammar Translation Method or Classical Method. However, with the outbreak of World War II, because of the exigency to teach English faster, a new approach by name Communicative Approach was in place thus the teaching of literature making way to the teaching of language per se. simultaneously, teaching language gave way to the teaching of communication skills. Thus the transition from the teaching of literature to language; language to communication skills; emphasis on accuracy (grammar) to fluency (communication); teacher centered lecture method to learner centered activities have taken place in quick succession, one after the other. In the whole process of transition, the emphasis and the focus has been the learners' need for communication, which has further branched out as English for Specific Purposes (ESP), aiming at teaching the specialized skills viz like English for engineers, legal English, business English, medical English and the like. Especially, the Business English assumes importance in view of the rise in business, post globalisation. The non-English countries like China too have been laying special focus on the teaching of Business English in the aftermath of the growing international trade and business. English has been fast expanding to such countries
Dept of English, Kakatiya University, 2014
New Delhi: Authors Press, 2020
Frontline, 2023
This is a wonderful book about the unknown, unacknowledged, and subjugated skilled artisans, grea... more This is a wonderful book about the unknown, unacknowledged, and subjugated skilled artisans, great dissident women, leather specialists, and skilled drummers of Madiga. Through the narratives of the author's ancestors, it describes in vivid detail the socioeconomic and political status quo of the author's community from the time of his ancestors to the present day. Once we begin reading it, we are unable to set it down until the last page. Those interested in learning about the Dalit legacy can enjoy reading.
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New Delhi: Critical Quest, 2013
Black Lilies, a mini anthology, comprises 73 poems representing as many as 39 Telugu Dalit poets,... more Black Lilies, a mini anthology, comprises 73 poems representing as many as 39 Telugu Dalit poets, every one of the Telugu dalit poets. The book provides space to writers from the first generation to the youngest of the contemporary poets. The poems are selected from a wide variety of times, ideologies, styles, genres and concerns covering over 100 years of dalit writing in Telugu. The selections represent the transition and development of dalit poetry. Beginning from protest and assertion, the poetry went on to mature into developing alternative dalit ouevre drawing from dalit rituals, rites, theatre, dialect, ideolect and region. The anthology, with a comprehensive introduction, is found handy and useful to those interested in dalit studies, caste narratives, sociologists and translation enthusiasts.
Journal of International Women's Studies, 2022
This journal and its contents may be used for research, teaching, and private study purposes. Any... more This journal and its contents may be used for research, teaching, and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, redistribution , reselling , loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply, or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. Authors share joint copyright with the JIWS. ©2022 Journal of International Women's Studies. This journal and its contents may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, redistribution , reselling , loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. ©2021 Journal of International Women's Studies.
Journal of Literature and Aesthetics Vol. 9 Nos (Jan-Dec). 1&2, 2009
Madiga by sub-caste, is one of the most promising contemporary Dalit writers in Telugu. Having co... more Madiga by sub-caste, is one of the most promising contemporary Dalit writers in Telugu. Having completed post-graduation in Telugu and presently pursuing his Ph.D., Yellaiah has so far published two Dalit novels namely Kakka (2000) and Siddi (2004) besides publishing several Dalit poems in the dailies and anthologies. Being familiar with the stagecraft, Yellaiah employs the resources of the Dalit street-plays in the narration of his novels. He is presently working on his third novel, which is a sequel to Siddi, and planning to publish it this year. Working as an ancillary-labourer in the Food Corporation of India (FCI), he takes part in the Dalit debates and activism. Yellaiah works with determination to record the heritage of the Dalits in general and the Madigas in particular. * * * Question: Dalit literature in Marathi and other languages like Tamil and Hindi started much earlier when compared to Telugu Dalit writing, which became visible as a literary movement only since 1984, the year when Karamchedu massacre took place. In spite of the fact that Andhra Pradesh is politically volatile having a history of peasant and tribal insurgencies, why is this delay in the Dalit activities and Dalit writing? Vemula Yellaiah: It is a question of diversion from caste to lands. We were diverted from fighting against the upper castes. At a time when we should have been waging struggles against untouchability and caste and for political power, we were lured by the Left with the hope of getting lands, and made us a party to their so-called struggle for the lands. Drawing their cadre from the innocent Dalits, the Leftist activities grew in Andhra to the extent of waging armed struggles in the thirties and forties ultimately ending in the fiasco of the Left believing in the ballet for the first time in the world. They won the subsequent elections with a thumping majority. They surrendered their struggle in lieu of power. We didn't realize that there was a conspiracy of using the Dalits as the cadre, they being at the helm of affairs. Subsequently they got lands and power. And we remained where we had been earlier. It took time for the Dalits to realize this conspiracy, and to come out of the jaws of the Left. Our exit from the Left was the beginning of the Dalit activities and writing.
Book Review on The Oxford Anthology of Telugu Dalit Writing, 2018
Dalits, aboriginals, subalterns, slaves, serviles, tribals, etc., are connected with an umbilical... more Dalits, aboriginals, subalterns, slaves, serviles, tribals, etc., are connected with an umbilical cord of the same section of the hapless society. Dalits and subalterns in India, aboriginals in Australia and Canada, Afro-Asians in the UK and the USA have sprouted and taken full-fledged areas of creative aesthetics in literature. A plethora of articles, books, monographs, autobiographies, memoirs, novels and poems have emerged as powerful visible forms of protest against the prolonged and chequered history of agony, anguish, exploitation, cruelty, maltreatment, malice and malevolence. Migration from one place to another has taken place to protect themselves from and protest against the sovereign/superior/colonizing and consumerist class. Earlier, misuse and mishandling of the marginalized communities became the subject matter of literary practices by few including the widely accepted 'holy trinity', M. R. Anand, R. K. Narayan and Raja Rao, who penned down and set the milestones in the literary sphere. With the passage of time, people from the beleaguered and subjugated class came forward to protest their subdued status in the society. They professed their creative articulations avowedly and started writing in the indigenous languages in several regions of India. Since they confined their writings in a particular language/dialect, the readership, therefore, was restricted to the speakers of the same language or was cramped in the same territory. Thanks to the translation studies in India which emerged from the late nineteenth century, the original texts in Hindi, Braj, Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Haryanvi, Rajasthani in northern India and Kannada, Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam in south India received recognition by the academicians, researchers and creative writers. Thus, the need of translation came to the fore to get wider readership. When many bilingual writers began writing both in their native languages and in English, the publishers, too, came forward to encourage them. The writers, poets and playwrights-cum-activists, such as Ananthamurthy, Ramanujan, Karnad, Manoj Das, Niranjan Mohanty, and Arun Kolatkar, Kamla Das and Mamta Kalia, carried forward the legacy of bi/multilingualism of Tagore, Firaq Gorakhpuri and Bachchan. But there is a brigade of authors, poets, novelists, travel writers, especially from pre-colonial India, who originally wrote and published in their native languages. Afterwards, there emerged a line of academicians who attempted in translation to get esteemed degrees, fellowships and certificates of appreciation. Few institutions of high approbation like Sahitya Akademy, New Delhi, were founded to promote and promulgate vernacular works in translation. Some publishers, such as the Writers Workshop, Seagull Books, Samya, Zubaan, Harper Perennial, Penguin
Stories of Re-negotiating Caste Hierarchies, 2024