Citizenship in Dalit and Indigenous Australian Literatures

Riya Mukherjee (University of Allahabad, India)

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English

Routledge
30 January 2025

Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Regional studies; Society & culture: general

Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia ASAA South Asian Series

Citizenship in Dalit and Indigenous Australian Literatures examines the difference in citizenship as experienced by the communities of Dalits in India and Aboriginals in Australia through an analysis of select literature by authors of these marginalised groups.

Aligning the voices of two disparate communities, the author creates a transnational dialogue between the subaltern communities of the two countries, India and Australia, through the literature produced by the two communities. The Covid-19 pandemic has made the divide that exists between the performative citizenship rights enjoyed by the Dalits and the aboriginals and the respective dominant communities of their countries more apparent. The author addresses the issue of this disparity between discursive and performative citizenship through a detailed analysis of select Dalit and Australian aboriginal autobiographies, in particular the works by Dalit autobiographers, Baby Kamble and Aravind Malagatti and aboriginal autobiographers Alice Nannup and Gordon Briscoe. The book uses the dominant tropes of the individual autobiographies as a background to unfurl the denial of citizenship, both in the discursive and the performative form, using the parameters of equal citizenship. In doing so, the author also raises important, groundbreaking questions: How is the performativity of citizenship foregrounded by the Dalits and aboriginals in the literary counter-public? How does this foregrounding evoke violent retribution from the dominant sections? And does the continued violation of performative citizenship point to the dysfunctionality of the performative citizenship status accorded to the Dalits and the aboriginals?

Questioning the liberal legacy of political, civil and social citizenship, this book will be of interest to researchers studying Dalit and Aboriginal Literature, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies and World Literature, South Asian Studies and researchers dealing with the question of citizenship.

By: Riya Mukherjee (University of Allahabad India)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 360g
ISBN: 9781032292915
ISBN 10: 1032292911
Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia ASAA South Asian Series
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 30 January 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Part I: Understanding Citizenship(s) Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Citizenship and its Vagaries Part II: Recasting the Discursive Denial of Citizenship in Dalit and Indigenous Australian Literatures Chapter 3. Caste as the Marker of Citizenship in Baby Kamble’s The Prisons We Broke; Chapter 4. Race and Prejudice: Discursive Denial of Citizenship in Alice Nannup’s When the Pelican Laughed Part III: From Discursive to Performative: Undoing the Performative Denial of Citizenship in Dalit and Indigenous Australian Literatures Chapter 5. Caste as a logic of denial: Rescripting Denial in Aravind Malagatti’s Government Brahmana; Chapter 6. Racialised Performative Denial of Citizenship in Gordon Briscoe’s Racial Folly; Chapter 7. Beyond Race and Caste: Towards a Performative Equal Citizenship

Riya Mukherjee is an Assistant Professor of English in S.S Khanna Girls’ Degree College, University of Allahabad, India.