The Poetics of Postcolonial Atrocity: Dalit Life Writing, Testimonio, and Human Rights
This essay discusses Dalit life writing, a genre of Indian texts that emerged first in regional languages, and, in the 1990s, in English. The genre, which may be treated as "testimonio", situates personal and collective suffering within a larger discourse of human rights. Dalit human right...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Ariel 2011-07, Vol.42 (3-4), p.237-264 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | This essay discusses Dalit life writing, a genre of Indian texts that emerged first in regional languages, and, in the 1990s, in English. The genre, which may be treated as "testimonio", situates personal and collective suffering within a larger discourse of human rights. Dalit human rights emerge in a national context but, as this essay shows, can be usefully integrated with a larger international-global discourse of suffering, trauma and human rights. (Quotes from original text) |
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| ISSN: | 0004-1327 1920-1222 |