Minority Discourses in India
Minority Discourses in India
Narrating Centers and Peripheries
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Year: 2020
Pages: 116
Size: 5.5 x 8.5 Inch
Publisher: Viva Books Originals
Sales Territory: Worldwide
Minority discourses provide differential, conceptual and theoretical frameworks for questions of identity based on gender, caste, race, class and ethnicity, as well as political and linguistic factors. They underline social and cultural pluralism in contemporary liberal democratic societies which often homogenize citizenship while simultaneously upholding discursive master-narratives that privilege domination and subordination by majority groups. Modern secular states attempt to transcend pluralism through principles of social cohesion while at the same time ironically organizing ideological categories based on prevailing ruling classes. Minority Discourses in India: Narrating Centers and Peripheries makes an effort to investigate varied texts, contexts and narratives of marginality in order to represent the heterogeneity and intersectionality of emerging minority discourses in India. The themes the writers have chosen to discuss are varied and reflect the diversity that the Indian subcontinent is. Problems encountered on the basis of caste, community, religion, gender, language and several other identities and categories that are integral to human living are investigated into and an attempt at negotiation through these papers is evident.
Target Audience:
People interested in sociology, social sciences, NGOs, minority issues, subaltern studies.
Contents:
Chapter 1: Dalit Literature in India: Marching Beyond Confines (S.A. Khader)
Chapter 2: My Cart, Her Class: Exploring Class and Gender in Indian Advertisements for Online Shopping Sites (Namrata Harish)
Chapter 3: The National vis-á-vis the Tribal Museum in India: Politics, Pedagogy and Performativity (Rose Sebastian)
Chapter 4: Negotiating Minority Identities in Mahesh Dattani's Dance Like a Man, Seven Steps Around the Fire and On a Muggy Night in Mumbai (Miruna George)
Chapter 5: The Periphery of the Margin: Contemporary Indian Children's Literature and the Minority (Padma Baliga)
Chapter 6: Yayati ? The Body-Soul Dualism Debated through Interwoven Tales of Lust and Aversion (Christina Dhanasekaran)
Chapter 7: The Negotiation of Religious Identity in the Secular Ideal (Amala Poli and Madhurima Maji)
Chapter 8: Linguistic Minorities in India: An Overview of the Challenges, Rights and Provisions (Divya K.B.)
About the Editor:
P. John Joseph Kennedy joined Christ University in 1990 and continues to inspire and motivate the student community and the faculty fraternity in different capacities. Currently Dr John Joseph Kennedy is Professor of English and Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Christ University, Bengaluru. After his Post graduation in English at the American College, Madurai, he went on to do his Postgraduate Diploma in English Studies at the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad. From the same institute, later he completed M.Litt (Master of Letters) before taking up teaching in the year 1990. His doctoral degree (Ph.D.) is in the field of Postcolonial Studies. With a rich experience of little over a quarter century in the field of higher education, his contribution to teaching, learning and research has been hugely inspirational to the student community at large. His other areas of academic interests include cultural studies. film studies and subaltern studies. He has published several papers in leading academic journals in these areas. Besides he has contributed immensely to enriching the rich body of knowledge through talks and lectures in national and international conferences. As an administrator he has conducted several workshops for school/ college students, teachers and for the corporate world on personality development, communication skills, motivation, soft skills and life skills. Currently he is also extensively involved in educational leadership, faculty development,leadership skills and mentoring at several institutions in India and abroad.
