TY - BOOK AU - Arya B.C TI - Contemporary Dalit Literature SN - 978-93-83181-59-9 U1 - 891.2 23 PY - 2017/// CY - New Delhi. PB - Global Publications N1 - 1. Introduction 2. Dalit Literature: Past and present 3. Aesthetics sense in Dalit poetry 4. A Study of Bhakti period and Dalit Aesthetics 5. Marathi Dalit literature 6. Tamil Dalit literature 7. Gujarat Dalit Literature 8. Punjabi Dalit literature and its exclusion from history 9. Dalit Feminism 10. Dalit Women in Autobiographies 11. Joothan: A Dalit Autobiography 12. Dalit women in Baby kamble's the prisons we broke 13. Urmila Pawar's Aayadan: A new perspective 14. The elegy of Dalit literature 15. The poetics of postcolonial atrocityin Dalit literature 16. Changing concept of freedom 17. Teaching of Dalit literature N2 - This study explores how Dalits have used literature as a means of protest against caste oppression. Including fresh ethnographic research and interview, it traces the trajectory of modern Dalit writing and its pivotal role in the creation, rise and reinforcement of a distinctive Dalit identity. The book challenges the existing impression of Dalit literature as stemming from the dalit political assertion of the 1980s and as being chiefly imitative of the Marathi Dalit literature model ER -