Validating Dalit literature as a tool to awakening Dalit consciousness
Keywords:
consciousness, protest, education, society, suffering, suppression, caste, movementsAbstract
This paper attempts to understand the role of Dalit Literature and unravels the idea of consciousness as an arena for social protest. At the same time, the present study caters to underpin that concept of Dalit consciousness is a socially and culturally constructed reality which expresses, initiates, and engages social protest as a form of empowerment and emancipation discourse. Such social protests become a norm of social assertion for empowerment of the marginalized communities. This is especially the case in a society which is highly stratified in social, economic, political and cultural realms and where this stratification has been maintained through social and cultural engineering of dominationand subordination for centuries. The Dalit community, which has been pushed to the bottom in social ladder in the name of caste and untouchability, has inherently realized its sense of human dignity in recent times and started recapturing its lost identity in and through such protest movements.
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Bio-note:
Dr. Jyoti Syal is working as an Assistant Professor of English in Maharishi Markandeshwar Deemed to University, Mullana, Ambala since 2015. A Doctorate in Subaltern Studies, she has extensive experience of teaching undergraduate classes of more than 14 years. She has 24 research papers published in various National and International Journals of repute.
Ms. Kamlesh Kumari is a Research Scholar in the Department of English, Maharishi Markaneshwar Deemed to University, Mullana. Her ongoing doctoral project is entitled as Voicing the Voiceless: A Comparative Study of Urmila Pawar’s The Weave of My Life and Baby Kamble’s The Prisons We Broke.
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