DISCOURSING MINORITY: In-Text and Co-Text

Discoursing Minority: In-Text and Co-Text makes an attempt to bring out the richness and variety of minority discourse across histories, cultures, and spaces. It engages with the notion(s) of minority to interrogate stereotypes and draws upon verbal and cultural texts to define and develop a larger discourse that underlines the major markers of our postcolonial world. It examines literary testimonies and art forms, both classical and modern, to explore broader areas of contestation among peoples and communities. To meet its greater aim, it develops theoretical parameters and puts them to test in critical practice. The book is dialogic in nature and comparative in approach as it makes way for Minority Studies, both within and outside India, to raise questions and seek possible answers.
Contents
1 Minorities across Cultures / Keki N. Daruwalla
2 Spokespersonship in Literary Theory / Dorothy Figueira
3 The Parameters of ?Minority Discourse? / Ipshita Chanda
4 Genre and Genus as Minority Discourse / Christi A. Merrill
5 The Sacred Writings of the Minorities / Gurbhagat Singh
6 Discoursing Minority / Anisur Rahman
7 Violence that Dare Not Speak Its Name / Mashrur Shahid Hossain and Kazi Asraf Uddin
8 Negotiating Difference / Assumpta Camps
9 Redefining the Secular and the Modern / E. V. Ramakrishna
10 The Artiste as Woman / Laxmi Kannan
11 Alternative Discourses of Power / Ameena Kazi Ansari
12 The Spiritual Economy of Caste and the Politics of Inversion / Sayantan Dasgupta
13 L? Ecriture feminineRachel Bari
14 Political Intervention in Minority Discourse / Maninder Pal Kaur Sidhu
15 Subaltern Voices in Indian Epic Recitals / Rashmi Mathur
16 Of Possession and Dispossession / Charu Mathur /
17 History of Race / S. Asha
18 Marginalizing Rural Life / John Burt Foster, Jr
19 Communist Autobiographies and Minority Discourses / Kunal Chattopadhyay
20 Diasbled but Beautiful and Proudly Resistant / Nehemiah Chivandikwa and Owen Seda
21 Blurring the Boundaries of the Canon / Owen Seda
22 Re-claiming the Mammy / Shaweta Nanda
23 Voices of Silence / Bandana Chakrabarty
24 Minority Discourse through Bioscope / Pragati Sobti and Amit Joshi