Volume I Special Issue I September 2021

Name of Author : Dr. Z Jamila Taj

Title of the paper : Violence and Gender Discrimination in Bama’s Sangati

Abstract: Dalit literature is a literature of protest, pain, and agony. The primary motive of Dalit literature is the liberation of Dalits. Its beginning can be traced to the undocumented oral folklore and tales of the past decades. The study of minorities and the oppressed has become an essential criterion in the current political, societal and literary scenario. Dalit fiction and its literary movement are based on the common ground of social oppression. Many thinkers, social reformers, writers and political figures like B.R. Ambedkar, Rettaimalai Srinivasan gave their contribution in the Dalit literary movement. Bama is one of the emerging powerful Dalit Feminist voices that articulate the oppression, violence and subjugation of Dalit women both by the men and those of upper caste. In her novel, Sangati, Bama graphically portrays the lives of Dalits in general and women in particular not in the grey colours of misery, oppression and suffering but rather as lively and vibrant for life which urges them forward in spite of all kinds of denial and depravation. This paper explores how caste and gender has affected the life of Dalits in general and Dalit women in particular with special reference to the fiction of Bama‟s Sangati.

Keywords : Dalit marginalization, Dalit Fiction, Oppression, Dalit Literature, Dalit literary movement

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Page Number : 9-13