Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Freeman Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian Studies Laura Brueck gave an invited lecture on Nov. 30 titled "Good Dalits, Bad Brahmins: Melodramatic Realism in the Hindi Dalit Short Story" as part of the University of Michigan's Center for South Asian Studies Scholarly Lecture Series.
In the paper she analyzed short stories by some of the Hindi language's leading Dalit (ex-"untouchable") authors and suggested that the narrative style of melodramatic realism is part of a larger effort to put forward a hegemonic Dalit public identity that in fact marginalizes alternative Dalit literary voices, such as those of women writers.
In the paper she analyzed short stories by some of the Hindi language's leading Dalit (ex-"untouchable") authors and suggested that the narrative style of melodramatic realism is part of a larger effort to put forward a hegemonic Dalit public identity that in fact marginalizes alternative Dalit literary voices, such as those of women writers.
