Caste and Life Narratives

by Charu Gupta

This collection of twelve essays foregrounds the conjunction of the social phenomenon called 'caste' with the genre of representation called 'life narratives'. Life narratives have long been a constitutive archive and a performative mode for testifying to the breadth and ferocity of caste oppression and for articulating a language of caste dissent. Caste and Life Narratives covers a variety of modes of representing 'actual lives', in whole or in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9352908767
• ISBN13: 9789352908769
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Primus Books
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"