Dalit Literature: A Critical Exploration

Dalit Literature: A Critical Exploration is an anthology of critical research papers contributed by different scholars hailing from the different parts of India.  It contains more than twenty scholarly papers dealing with the various aspects of Dalit Literature, e.g., Chokamela: the Poineer of Untouchable Movement in Maharashtra, the growth and evaluation of Dalit literature, Dalit Literary theory, Dalit feminism, Dalit poetry, distinctive voices of distress, outcaste in Tagore’s poetry, the othered and unempowered in M.R. Anand, the Dalit sensibility in the writings of Jim Corbett, Gujarati Dalit poetry, reversing centrality and marginality, Gujarati Dalit poetry and its origin and development, short stories in Gujarati Dalit literature, Dalit in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, Narendra Jadhav’s Outcaste: A memoir and the psychodynamics of women in Shosh, a Gujarati Dalit novel.  The book, it is hoped, will certainly slake the thirst of those teachers, research scholars and general readers who want to be more familiar with the various aspects of Dalit literature in India.