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标题：From the Margins to the Center: Dalit Women Writers
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作者：Ranjana Kaul ; Sunanda Gupta
期刊名称：Lapis Lazuli : an International Literary Journal
电子版ISSN：2249-4529
出版年度：2015
卷号：5
期号：2
出版社：Pinter Society of India
摘要：Dalit literature, whether written by women or men, is most often born of the writers‟ angst at belonging to a community which has always occupied a liminal space in Indian society despite being an intrinsic part of the social fabric of the country. It began and continues to be a protest against being treated as less than equal even in a post-independence society which advocates justice and equality in all spheres irrespective of class and religion. It was a while before Dalit writing established itself as a means of subjecting the abject poverty and marginalisation of the community to sustained critical interrogation. Through their writings Dalit writers have dared to question existing mainstream literary theories and upper-caste ideologies and explored that which was hidden but true. This was a lived reality that stood in stark contrast to accepted norms of life. The work of Dalit women writers inevitably grows out of their own socio-politicalcontext but their portrayal of social reality and the challenges of dealing with change and displacement move their works beyond the merely polemical. While Dalit women writers have sometimes been charged with abandoning their caste identity in favour of a gendered consciousness, it is their engagement with a wider reality which will move their work into a literary space which is open to broader critical enquiry and literary engagement
关键词：Dalit; Gender; Marginalisation; Subjugation; Silence; Identity; Representation; Exclusion