Dalit Autobiographies as Counter Publics: An Exploratory Essay

Despite Bourdieu’s warning that autobiography is a form of narcissism and a decline into navel gazing, as it were, the genre of autobiography is a well-recognized medium in contemporary scholarship. In particular, there has been recognition of the autobiographies of subaltern populations as represen...

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Main Author: Meenakshi Thapan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud
Series:South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/samaj/7910