Contemporary Dalit Literature / B.C. Arya.

By:

Arya B.C

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi. Global Publications; 2017.Edition: 1st ed. 2017Description: 248 p . ; hardbound 14x22cmISBN:

978-93-83181-59-9

DDC classification:

23 891.2 ARY

Contents:

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

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Tetso College Library English Literature	Non-fiction	891.2 ARY (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		8011

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

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.

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