Caste and Gender:

Generalities of Experience

Authors

  • Anirban Das

Keywords:

Experience, Standpoint Theory, Phenomenology, Fiction, Woman

Abstract

The ways in which the hegemony of the hierarchies of the caste structure are produced and continued are different from the ways in which the hegemony of man over woman is replicated in reproductive heteronormativity. The exclusion of the dalit and the exclusion of the non-normative sexualities work through different structural grids. Yet they intersect at certain spaces. The body of the woman is one very important place where this intersection occurs. Of course, these are logical and phenomenological processes at work at an abstract level. And definitely, these are not the only processes at work. The present paper focuses on, yet one more time, the woman's body as the site where processes of caste and gender intersect. To do this, it reads a story in Bangla. In the process, the standpoints of caste and gender are seen to be constituted by their dissipated enunciations in the social. 

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Author Biography

Anirban Das

Anirban Das is Associate Professor in Cultural Studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. After graduating in Medicine, he shifted to an interdisciplinary space in the humanities and the social sciences with a PhD in Philosophy. He has published in English and vernacular Bangla on feminist theory, deconstruction, postcolonial theory, the body, science studies and medical epistemology. His academic monograph Toward a Politics of the (Im)Possible: The Body in Third World Feminisms has been published by the Anthem Press. He is currently working on three book projects and a number of essays.in

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Published

2021-11-10

How to Cite

Das, A. (2021). Caste and Gender:: Generalities of Experience. Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 6(1), 99–111. Retrieved from https://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/article/view/123