Volume I Special Issue I September 2021

Name of Author : Dr. R Prabhakar & Y Kishore

Title of the paper : Portrayal of Social Discrimination in the Selected Telugu Writers in English Translation

Abstract: This paper attempts to trace the depiction of Dalit lives from socio cultural and political dimensions in the three prominent Dalit contemporary writers G.Kalyan Rao, Kollakaluri Enoch, Kancha Illaiah. These writers produce different genres in Dalit literature. Present study analyses social discriminations, poverty, exploitation, and social oppression of Dalit lives in the short stories, novels, and critical works produced by the Dalit writers mentioned above. Kalyan Rao‟s novel Untouchable Spring, presents Dalit culture untouchability and poverty of Dalit lives. Kollakaluri Enoch‟s short stories portray vulnerability of Dalits in general and Madiga‟s in particular. Kanche Ilaiiah in his works attempted to trace the roots of Dalit socio cultural history and expounded socio cultural theory to reconstruct socio cultural history of Dalit Bahujans. Articulation of new ideologies for the liberation of Dalits from the Hindu hegemonic society occupied important place in the works of these writers. Kalyan Rao opted radical Marxist wing Naxalism , Enoch has chosen Dalit enlightenment and Kanche Illeiah depended upon new social doctrine to emancipate deprived sections of society. Though their ideologies are different Portryal of Dalit lifes in their works remains the same.

Keywords : Untouchability, Vulnerability, Poverty, Hegemony, Oppression, Naxalism

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Page Number : 28-32