Shubhendu Shekhar Naskar – författare

Shyamali Haldar Naskar, a Dalit author renowned for portraying marginalized Sundarbans women, vividly captures the struggles, survival strategies, and harsh realities of life in the Sundarbans. Through her poignant narrative, this book brings to light the agonies and humiliations endured by the oppressed communities of this riverine delta.Through her novella, short stories, and poems, she sheds light on the miseries and denial of basic human rights endured by Dalit communities in the Sundarbans. Naskar’s anthology provides a unique perspective as a Dalit woman writer, offering a subaltern reading of marginalized groups, including women subjected to patriarchal oppression. She captures the lives of fishermen, honey collectors, shrimp catchers, crab hunters, and woodcutters, portraying their struggles against nature’s fury and forced migration for survival. This pioneering work highlights gender-based oppression and the tragic realities of coastal communities in the Sundarbans.Part of the Voices from the Margins series, this critical edition will be an important resource book for students of literature, comparative literature, modern Indian literature, minority studies, Dalit studies and gender studies. It will also be of interest to those engaged with contemporary Indian/South Asian literary cultures, social sciences, history and sociology.

The first volume of Dalit plays available in English translation.This pioneering anthology gathers together eleven Dalit plays originally written in a broad scope of Indian languages: Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Tulu. The plays in the collection span both a wide range of provinces and time periods and demonstrate a wide range of dramatic conventions and theatrical forms.In turning its attention towards Dalit plays and theatre, this book opens out an area of study that is larger underrepresented in Indian Dalit literature. As the first book of its kind, Dalit Dialogues aims to highlight the importance of the discipline within the context of the Dalit movement in India.Edited by Shubhendu Shekhar Naskar, recipient of the Charles Wallace Research Grant, this collection introduces Dalit playwrights – all of them writing in the vernacular – to an English-speaking readership. His critical introduction is accompanied by translator’s note, each providing wider context and a critical apparatus for students to explore the language and themes of the plays.Written for translators, future researchers and students of Global theatre, this collection contributes to the development of the literary aesthetics of resistance by addressing the depiction of caste, class and gender-based marginalisation within the framework of postcolonial Indian theatre.

The first volume of Dalit plays available in English translation.This pioneering anthology gathers together eleven Dalit plays originally written in a broad scope of Indian languages: Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Tulu. The plays in the collection span both a wide range of provinces and time periods and demonstrate a wide range of dramatic conventions and theatrical forms.In turning its attention towards Dalit plays and theatre, this book opens out an area of study that is larger underrepresented in Indian Dalit literature. As the first book of its kind, Dalit Dialogues aims to highlight the importance of the discipline within the context of the Dalit movement in India.Edited by Shubhendu Shekhar Naskar, recipient of the Charles Wallace Research Grant, this collection introduces Dalit playwrights – all of them writing in the vernacular – to an English-speaking readership. His critical introduction is accompanied by translator’s note, each providing wider context and a critical apparatus for students to explore the language and themes of the plays.Written for translators, future researchers and students of Global theatre, this collection contributes to the development of the literary aesthetics of resistance by addressing the depiction of caste, class and gender-based marginalisation within the framework of postcolonial Indian theatre.