Dalit literature is a new phenomenon in the modern era of literature where the tormenting experiences of Dalit, Untouchable writers are exposed to present the contemporary social, mental agony. As time passed by since centuries, after endless suffering and utter dehumanization, the Dalits have become resistant and have assembled courage to challenge the upper caste Hindu hegemony. They have learnt to fight back the casteist forces and regain their self dignity as human beings. They have organized many liberation movements and protests in different forms. One of the forms is literature through which they have expressed their century long agony and degradation which they have been tolerating. They have expressed their voice for their basic human rights through their own writings. They adapted various forms of literary wrings such as poems, short stories, novels, paintings, memoirs, and most importantly, the autobiographies, which altogether have formed a literary canon known as Dalit Literature.
Dr. Archana Sharma has been teaching English in Govt. Polytechnic College, Dhenkanal, Odisha for last ten years. She has done her research in ‘Experimental Studies of Speech Communication’. She has written four books on different areas of communicative English and presented 32 papers in international seminars. A prolific scholar on speech therapy she is widely acknowledged for her practical approaches.
1.Introduction 2.Concept, Origin, and Features of Dalit Literature 3. Dalit Literature: Past and Present 4. Dalit Literature of Post Independence Era: Quest for Identity in Prose and Poems 5. Dalit Literature of Post- Independence Era: Novels, Autobiographies, and Plays 6.Aesthetics of Dalit Literature 7. Aesthetics of Dalit Poetry 8. Dalit Aesthetics: A Study of Bhakti Period 9. Marathi Dalit Literature 10. Tamil Dalit Literature 11. Gujarati Dalit Literature 12. Rich Heritage in Punjabi Dalit Literature and its Exclusion from History 13. Dalit Feminism: A Transformation of Rejection into Resistance 14. Representation of Dalit Women in Autobiographies 15. Om Prakash Valmiki’s Joothan A Dalit Autobiography 16. Dalit Women in Baby Kamble’s The Prisons We Broke 17. Urmila Pawar’s Aayadan: A New Perspective 18. Poems of Pain and Stories of Sadness: Dalit Literature 19. Emergence of Dalit Novel: Changing Notion of Freedom 20. Dalit Movements and Writings 21. Dr. Ambedkar’s Inspiration and Dalit Literature 22. Teaching of Dalit Literature in Higher Education Bibliography Index
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