The aesthetics of Dalit writing. 350 words
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The early phase of Dalit sahitya (literature) drew quite centrally on descriptive and critical practices associated with both anti-caste thought and Marxism to produce an urban literature which foregrounded the Dalit subaltern as an agent of social transformation. This article gives a prehistory of the 1950s and 1960s Dalit sahitya and argues that Dalit writing is a form of immanent critique that addresses the changing relationship of caste, capital and Bombay’s distinctive urbanity. Rather than focus on the “literariness” of Dalit sahitya, the article argues that one should bracket the question of the literariness of Dalit literature, and focus instead on those forms of linguistic concreteness, or practices of naming and description that politicized key aspects of subaltern life. Herein lies the prehistory of a recognizable Dalit poetics, one that relates writing to urbanity, and Dalit Bombay to Bombay modern.
Literature, since the time it has been written, has tried its best to entertain the readers and it also mirrors the evils like casteism and untouchability. Literature is considered as the mouth piece of the society in which it is written. So, it was the power of words that empowered Dalits to put across their voice, so that people may understand what wrongs have been done to them. Words are used as weapons to express their trauma as well as anger against the wrongs and ill-treatment meted out to them.The aim of Dalit Literature is to protestagainst the established system which is based on injustice and to expose the evil and hypocrisy of the higher castes. There is an urgent need to create a separate aesthetics for Dalit literature, an aesthetics based on the real experiences of life. (The Aesthetics of Dalit Literature) The Indian writers in English have ignored the Indian reality for a long time. But on the other hand the regional writers, writing in their own languages present a comprehensive and crystal clear picture of her community.
Sharankumar Limbale is regarded as the most prolific writers of contemporary literature whose literature aimed to expose the brutality of the upper class in Maharashtra
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