
Was the first Tamil Dalit woman to publish a novel in 1989. Used literary works to articulate a Dalit feminist standpoint. Pioneering Tamil Dalit women writers, Bama and P. ThisĮssay responds to Mangalam's call and examines the work of two Liberation/empowerment through writing" (Mangalam, 2007). To chart out its critical course of intervention as a tool to aid Tamilĭalit writers' agenda of working towards Dalit

That "Dalit writers merit an ideologically articulate, theorized,Īnd critically nuanced reading of their works. Mangalam calls for literary criticism onĭalit literature to transcend concerns over Dalit identity and argues Mangalam argue for the importance of developing a literaryĬritical corpus that pays attention to the diversity within the Dalit Several scholars including Lauraīrueck and B. Realist aesthetic peculiar to a modern Dalit perspective, are only about Notes that the emergence of a "self-conscious literary genre,ĭominated by themes of exploitation and political awakening as well as a Oppressed by the social system is not a new phenomenon, Laura Brueck While resistance to caste exploitation by those Tamil Dalit literature is a relatively new arrival in the literary

2010 Pakistan Association for Women's Studies 25 May. MLA style: "The lives of Tamil Dalit women: a study of the literary works of Bama and P.
