Subaltern Women’s Narratives

Samraghni Bonnerjee is Wellcome ISSF Fellow at the School of English, University of Leeds, and Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing at Wolfson College, Oxford. She was a Vice-Chancellor’s Scholar at the University of Sheffield, where she read for a PhD in English Literature.

• 1. Introduction: Subaltern Women’s ResistancePART I: EPISTEMOLOGICAL DISSENT2. Narratives of Hidden Curriculum in Fiji3. "Insulting the Modesty of a Woman?!": Examining the Language of Protest in Malawi4. Marginalised Women in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia: Novels as Fictional Intervention5. Unhomed Knowledge: The Diasporic Family as Site of Subaltern Pedagogy6. Searching in the Shadows: Aboriginal Women in Early Colonial New South Wales7. Feminist voice(s) in South African Curriculum-Making and DisseminationPART II: EMBODYING RESISTANCE8. Touching the ‘Untouchable’: Depiction of Body and Sexuality in Select Dalit Women’s Autobiographies9. Rethinking Subalternity through Posthuman and Feminist Entanglements: Violence, Displacement, Exile and the Woman Subject in Contemporary Turkish Literature10. Conjuring up a Shadow: A Case of Castration in a Colonial Archiv11. Voicing Sexual and Social Resistance in Seventeenth-Century ManilaPART III: PRACTICING SUBVERSION12. Survival and Resilience: Rohingya Refugee Women’s Narratives of Life, Loss, and Hope13. Translating into Other Identities: Bama and Her Writing14. Thriving, Surviving and Hanging on: Domestic Workers in Harare Suburbs15. Restitution of Conjugal Rights and the Dissenting Female Body: The Rukhmabai Case16. Subaltern’s Resistance against Rape and Sexual Assault: An Aporia?