1. Subaltern Studies the Theoretical perspectives 2. the Subaltern Studies Collective, 3. Subaltern Studies and Postcolonialism 4. Subaltern Studies and Post Colonial Feminism The Gendered Subaltern, 5. Subaltern Studies and the Dalit Experience, 6. Subaltern Studies in Latin America. 7. Subalternity and Disability Studies, 8. Extending the Boundaries Borderlands and Multiple Worlds 9. Reading Subalternity in Films
This volume is a comprehensive and critical introduction to Subaltern Studies. It offers a detailed discussion of all major perspectives of the Subaltern Studies Collective and a panoramic view of the twelve volumes published by the Collective. The volume is also a critical delineation of how Subaltern Studies in India has complicated its initial Marxist and Foucauldian focus with the introduction of postcolonial theory, an evolving Dalit consciousness, feminist interventions, Disability Studies and borderlands perspectives. Using a range of texts including fiction, autobiographical narratives and cinema, Subaltern Studies provides critical readings of the representation of the subaltern in both Indian and other contexts. The Subaltern Studies Collective, founded in 1982, begun with the goal of establishing a new critique of both colonialist and nationalist perspectives in the historiography of colonized countries. These essays chart the course of subaltern history from an early concentration on peasant revolts and popular insurgency to an engagement with the more complex processes of domination and subordination, in a variety of the changing institutions and practices of evolving modernity.