Volume III Issue II April-June 2023

Name of Author : M Elayavel Anitha

Title of the paper : Investigating the Literary Practice of the Dalit Feminist Viewpoint: Turning Rejection into Resistance

Abstract: Through fostering solidarity, Dalit Feminism can educate and maybe collaborate with other underprivileged communities. Reges notion of Dalit woman as a created category instead of an ideology one is also noteworthy in this essay. Using the research of Baby Kambles The Prisons We Broke and Urmila Pawars The Weaving of My Life, this article demonstrates an exploratory approach to building a Dalit Feminist Standpoint Theory. Exploration offers a framework for forming an opinion and highlights the more important aspects of Dalit womens marginalization, subjectivity, and absence of voice as they are mirrored in Dalit Literature, Indian feminism, the Dalit Movement, and their daily lives. This study contends that Dalit women authors have a strong point of view as an outsider within, and it makes the case that their experience of being oppressed on three different levels— class, gender identity, and caste—allows for a variety of perspectives that complement one another and aid readers in understanding their situation as Dalit subjects and women. As a result, Dalit women produce this new body of knowledge, which challenges the conventional androcentric paradigm. This research represents enlightenment, a strategy for social change, Dalit womens activism, and emancipation. Most importantly, by placing more faith in the artistic potential of their narratives and cultural histories, this investigation may aid other marginalized groups of people or sociologists.

Keywords : Dalit, Feminism, Dominance, Marginalized, Culture

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Page No. : 67-70