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,...
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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. Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Citizenship and Its Vagaries -- 3. Caste as the Marker of Citizenship in Baby Kamble's The Prisons We Broke -- 4. Discursive Denial of Citizenship in Alice Nannup's When the Pelican Laughed -- 5. Rescripting Denial in Aravind Malagatti's Government Brahmana -- 6. Racialized Performative Denial of Citizenship in Gordon Briscoe's Racial Folly -- 7. Beyond Race and Caste: Towards Real Performative Citizenship -- Index.
