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Representations of Dalit Protagonists: Indian English Fiction and Marathi Dalit Literature

Representations of Dalit Protagonists: Indian English Fiction and Marathi Dalit Literature

Lokhande, Hanumant Ajinath

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral Eastern Religions

ISBN10: 3031664434
ISBN13: 9783031664434
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Sep 24 2024
Pages: 281
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book interrogates canonical Indian English fiction which has Dalit characters as protagonists or major characters, and argues that the representation of such characters, although well-meant, is regulated and made unremarkable. It examines how the normative discourse of the Anglophone novel portrays Dalits from an upper-caste point of view, devoid of Ambedkarite or Dalit consciousness, and thus implicitly reinscribes the upper caste power by restricting the narrative to merely represent Dalit submission and victimhood. The arguments then are substantiated by setting up a comparative framework through contrastive analysis of selected narratives by Dalit writers from Marathi Dalit literature to highlight the differential representational paradigms that mark the absence or presence of Ambedkarite consciousness and perspective.

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