The Danger of Gender: Caste, Class and Gender in Contemporary Indian Women’s Writing

The Danger of Gender explores the influence of caste, class and gender in contemporary women’s writing in India. Gender affects women in fiction as well as in real life. This work presents the current situation of women in India throughout a social, historical and literary analysis. It is focused on three kinds of contemporary women’s writing in India-such as Indian English literature (represented by Anita Nair), Dalit literature (represented by contemporary Marathi women writers) and Tribal literature (exemplified by Mahasweta Deli and tribal women writers) to find out what binds women’s writers from different socio-cultural backgrounds. This work shows that in the end the brunt of gender affects a Brahmin woman as much as a Dalit one, even though in different ways. Unfortunately, not only in fiction.