Literature Of Dalit Literature

Literature is written to inspire and influence the readers. Usually literature records the thoughts of great mind. Literature attracts the readers in two ways; one is through its matter and another through its manner. To be specific, through its matter, literature attracts the reader and is interesting for him in some way or the other. It can also be said that it provides him pleasure and joy. But through its manner, literature is not only pleasing to the reader but also something that provides him

Hindi Dalit literature’s moment has arrived. After years of obscurity and unflattering comparisons to the maturity and expressiveness of Dalit literature in languages such as Marathi and Tamil, creative Dalit writing in Hindi is finally reaching a more visible level of popular recognition. Hindi Dalit novels, autobiographies, short-story and poetry anthologies, as well as volumes of literary criticism, are today being regularly published by Delhi’s top Hindi-language publishing houses, Rajkamal and

wounded self with specific experience, the experience of Dalit women. It argued against patriarchy and caste oppression. Bama’s personal struggle finds her own identity, Karukku which means Palmyra leaves. Bama attempts to overcome her existential despite stemming from her alienation from the convent and her community. Karukku was a new genre in the history of Tamil Literature; it has gained many praises and many scorned it. Dalit literature was born out of anguish of unjust social systems based on

Topic for the Seminar:Dalits In India By K.Hymavathi Asst.Proffessor Dept.Of AS&H Vitam College of Engg. Visakhapatnam My Paper deals with the “Social Status of Dalits during the pre and post Independent India” India is a vast country. It is a land of rich culture and heritage. It is also a land of unity in diversity with its people following multi-religion and speaking many languages. India enjoys a democratic form of government. It has become independent 62years ago. Cast System In India: Social

ISSUE Gynocritical Ethnography of the Dalit Women: Usha Ganguli’s Rudali The paper aims to study Ganguli’s Hindi play Rudali1 as a sociological discourse of Dalit woman’s experiences in the post colonial India. In his introduction to Poisoned Bread: Translation from Modern Marathi Dalit Literature, Arjun Dangle gave a genesis of Dalit literature and discussed how it became popular among academic personages. He noted that Dalit Literature is marked by revolt and negativism, since it is marked by

an untouchable. Eklavya was debarred from the art of archery by the great guru Drona and he had to pay a heavy price for being a low-caste.” (Bir Singh Yadav 71) These literatures not only justify the injustice but glorify it. So Neo Dalitism is to critically deconstruct and reconstruct from the exploited point of view, the dalit

Limbale depicts a true and realistic picture of the darker side of the Indian society. Here the darker side indicates nothing but the worst culture of our Indian society in discriminating people by their caste. The novel narrates the dehumanization of Dalits. Their suffering includes inequality, discrimination and indifference towards them and their culture. They are ill-treated for which they do nothing. The author describes about his pathetic situation of not having an identity in his own society. The

not be satisfied: “What will you say of your feeling Living with a sister who terrorizes Even manic depressions out of your mind? (‘Sage in the Cubicle’) Kandasamy’s poems portray such a dreadful picture of varied agonies experienced by Dalits that her poems seem as an encyclopaedia of painfulinventories. Untouchable turns into touchable for upper caste when it fits their selfish deeds andlusty demands. As in the poem entitled “Narration” the lady narrates :I’ll weep to you

3.3 Alcoholism The portrayal of alcoholism, which has been rampant through the generations cannot be denied and presents a paradox with which the native writers must grapple. The pathetic city drunks and the pitiful alcoholic parents of the warm water sisters, Junior, Thomas, and Victor ring like wake up calls to the social problems faced by the Indian people. The representation of alcoholism in the text, Reservation Blues, highlights a stereotypical social image of the drunken Indian. It

India’s Caste System The Caste system has aroused much controversy than any other feature of India’s society. Every day, Dalits are butchered, assaulted, abused, raped, lynched, shot or openly mutilated without considering any consequences of the offenders. The deaths of pregnant women who are not able to pay the bribes at government hospitals, some boys with eyes raised completely out for falling in love with a girl of a superior caste, and horrid stories of employees boiled to death because of