The Journey from Untouchable to DalitPioneering Literacy Landmarks and Dissident Dalit Voices Of Contemporany India

  1. Ana García-Arroyo
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Odisea: Revista de estudios ingleses

ISSN: 1578-3820

Argitalpen urtea: 2017

Zenbakia: 18

Orrialdeak: 35-50

Mota: Artikulua

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This paper analyses the situation of Untouchable / Dalit people in India through intersecting literature and social realities. It focuses on the most relevant and pioneering literary works of colonial and postcolonial times and how these landmarks of fiction function as a mimetic expression of everyday life. Then, the main objective is 1) to give an overview of the representation of untouchability and its evolution into the Dalit consciousness within the interrelated contexts of literature and real life; and 2) to demonstrate that in much less than a century India has witnessed astonishing changes as far as the social stratification of caste-gender is concerned.

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