Introduction Puspa Damai; Part I. Re-casting Otherness: 1. The Treatment of Alterity in Sama's Epic Chiso Chulho Abhi Subedi; 2. The Sweeper and the Mirror: The Emergence of Dalit Consciousness in Nepali-Language Literature Michael Hutt; 3. Systemic Discrimination and Caste-based Violence in Nepal Rabindra Chaulagain and Narayan Pokhrel; 4. Nepali Dalit Literature: Texts, Contexts, and Concepts Mim Bahadur Pariyar and Jyoti Biswas; Part II. Ethnicity, Indigeneity, and Struggles for Cultural Autonomy; 5. Exploring Women and Janjatis as (Not) Others in Nepali Fictions Tulasi Acharya; 6.

Ramshekhar's Dhintalla and the Newar Language Movement Kritish Rajbhandari; 7. Naïve Indigenous Servants and Alienated Masters: Social Hierarchy in Modern Nepali Plays Shiva Rijal; 8. History, Memory, and Dissent in Contemporary Tamang Poetry Kumari Lama; 9. Brahmanical Knowledge Production in the Himalayas: High-Caste Authors and Dolpo in Nepali Literature Tashi Chhering Ghale; Part III. Gendering Alterity: 10. Masculinities and Other-ing in Yogesh Raj's Ranahar and Laxmiprasad Devkota's 'Pagal' Ubaraj Katawal; 11. Democracy, Development, and Desire in Manjushree Thapa's The Tutor of History Pushpa Acharya; 12. A Phenomenology of Love in Shirishko Phool Menuka Gurung; 13.

Madhesi Women's Struggle Against Patriarchy and Nationalism in Nepal Priti Mandal; 14. Women and Disaster in Contemporary Nepali Literature Kritika Chettri; Index.