UNDERSTANDING MARGINALITY: Cultural and Literary Perspectives

Book Details

• Author: Supriya Agarwal

• Publisher: Rawat Publications

• Language: English

• Edition: 2022

• ISBN: 9788131612293

• Pages: 260

• Cover: Hardcover

About the Book

This compelling anthology curated by Supriya Agarwal brings to light the layered complexities of marginality across various sociopolitical and cultural landscapes. With the increasing dominance of surveillance and power over the masses, this volume becomes a timely and urgent intervention that documents the voices often pushed to the peripheries. Divided into four thought-provoking sections, the book delves into themes such as gender, sexuality, caste, class, refugee crises, artistic resistance, cinematic marginality, student politics, mob lynching, and the institutional silencing of dissenting voices.

In Part 1: Gender and Sexuality, essays dissect Article 377, queer aesthetics, gender identities, and migrant women's lived experiences. Part 2: Speaking Art explores postcolonial interpretations of cinema, linguistic politics, representations of Muslims in Bollywood, trauma in refugee narratives, and indigenous cultural expressions. Part 3: Colour and Caste addresses Dalit youth resistance, student politics, exclusionary urban realities, lynching, and racialized exclusions. Part 4: Disability, Dislocation and Incarceration investigates disability discourse, the Kashmiri Pandit narrative, animal marginalization, and ecopoetic interpretations of identity.

A significant contribution to contemporary socio-cultural discourse, this book not only documents but also critiques the mechanisms of systemic oppression while suggesting modes of resistance and dialogue. Scholars, activists, and students of gender studies, cultural studies, and political sociology will find this anthology immensely insightful.

About the Editor
Supriya Agarwal is Professor and Dean at the School of Humanities and Languages, Central University of Rajasthan. A seasoned scholar with multiple national and international publications, she specializes in gender studies, comparative literature, and the pedagogy of literature. She has co-edited several anthologies and authored two books.

Contributors include Neha Arora, an expert in Dalit and Subaltern Literature; and Ved Prakash, whose research spans Cultural Studies, Film Studies, and African American Literature, alongside numerous other academic voices contributing to this vital discourse.