Sankar Prasad Singha Ed <br/><br/>
Towards social change:  essays on dalit literature 

 - Hyderabad  Orient Blackswan   2014 
 - viii,189p.  HB  22x14cm. 
<br/><br/> Dalit writings have a sense of defiance, identity and revolt. The struggles that Dalit writers have had to go through provide them with intellectual clarity and self-confidence.<br/>The essays in this collection discuss themes from various regions.<br/>A piece on the dilemmas that a translator faces delves into the problems and politics of representation of the subaltern in an Amitav Ghosh novel.<br/>Another chapter makes a comparative study of Dalit and Holocaust (Nazi Germany) literatures which share experiences of subjugation, suffering and torture.<br/>An analysis of Narendra Jadhav s memoir Outcaste that travels from bitter memories to better dreams across three generations finds Dalits attaining recognition and success against dreadful odds. A look at some Bengali Dalit poems shows how revolutionary anger is channelled to achieve an aesthetic effect. The creation of a forum for marginalised women writers in Andhra Pradesh is vividly described. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9788125053446 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Classical Realism<br/>Dalits of Bengal<br/>Dalit Poetry Past and Present
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>820.409  / SINT