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Dedication: In memory of my mother, my family, and for all of us who were taken from our people.
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Citizenship in Dalit and Indigenous Australian Literatures
London
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Routledge
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2023
26033071
2023
multi chapter work
criticism
'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.' (Publication summary)
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Writing Self, Writing Community: Storytellers and Activism
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australia and India : Interconnections : Identity, Representation, Belonging 2006; (p. 75-85) -
'Believe Me' : Acts of Witnessing in Aboriginal Women's Autobiographical Narratives
2000
single work
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— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 64 2000; (p. 142-152) -
Too Obvious To See : Aboriginal Sprituality and Cosmology
1999
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues , December vol. 2 no. 4 1999; (p. 5-12) -
Alice Nannup's `Homes': Cultural Identification and Land in `When the Pelican Laughed'
1998
single work
biography
— Appears in: Land and Identity : Proceedings of the 1997 Conference Held at The University of New England Armidale New South Wales 27-30 September 1997 1998; (p. 44-47)
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Aboriginal Women's Autobiography : Alice Nannup's When the Pelican Laughed
1997
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Aratjara : Aboriginal Culture and Literature in Australia 1997; (p. 121-127) -
Writing Self, Writing Community: Storytellers and Activism
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australia and India : Interconnections : Identity, Representation, Belonging 2006; (p. 75-85) -
When the Object Speaks, A Postcolonial Encounter : Anthropological Representations and Aboriginal Women's Self-Presentations
1998
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Discourse : Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education , December vol. 19 no. 3 1998; (p. 275-289) -
Too Obvious To See : Aboriginal Sprituality and Cosmology
1999
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues , December vol. 2 no. 4 1999; (p. 5-12) -
Lives in Custody
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: After Mabo : Interpreting Indigenous Traditions 1993; (p. 27-53)
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