Volume II Special Issue VI June 2022

Name of Author : Madhumati, Prof. Shantha Naik N

Title of the paper : BAMA’S WORKS: Discussion on Caste, Gender, and Identity

Abstract: The paper focus on Tamil Dalit Writer Bama Faustina works. She is a pioneer in highlighting the Dalit peoples situation and society in her novel, in a critical way. Here I have taken selected novels Sangati, Kurukku, and Vanamam for the discussion of Caste, Gender, and Identity. She explores various issues such as caste, creed, oppression, dominance faced by a Dalit women in her community as a whole. Many earlier works have been used as a medium to protest against that kind of jeopardised evils. However, the world has witnessed many critical issues and the main aim has been to explore this kind of social evil view to reform the society. So that Bama discussed many issues such as caste, gender, and identity and with the help of identity, she raised the voice of the marginal community and condemned very seriously to unfetter them from the clutches of casteism. This research paper discussed that ‘how Dalit women are in society’, ‘how they got oppressed by her husbands’, ‘how they were suppressed by upper-caste men and women’, and ‘how her identity closed in this patriarchal dominance or authorities’. In Bama Faustinas novel, female characters replicate the psychological strength and voice against oppression of caste.

Keywords : Caste, Gender, oppression, Identity, Marginalisation

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Page Number : 42-45