Towards social change: essays on dalit literature
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Hyderabad Orient Blackswan 2014Description: viii,189p. HB 22x14cmISBN: 9788125053446Subject(s): Classical Realism | Dalits of Bengal | Dalit Poetry Past and PresentDDC classification: 820.409 Summary: 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. The essays in this collection discuss themes from various regions. 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. Another chapter makes a comparative study of Dalit and Holocaust (Nazi Germany) literatures which share experiences of subjugation, suffering and torture. 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.Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Book | St Aloysius College (Autonomous) | English | 820.409 SINT (Browse shelf) | Available | 075996 |
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.
The essays in this collection discuss themes from various regions.
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.
Another chapter makes a comparative study of Dalit and Holocaust (Nazi Germany) literatures which share experiences of subjugation, suffering and torture.
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.
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