Tamil Dalit Literature: My Own Experience
Jean Filliozat Series in South Asian Culture and History
Synopsis
Dalit literature has arrived in Tamil, and it has come of age. Until the past twenty or thirty years, Dalit people in India, traditionally the recipients of some of India's worst discrimination and oppression, did not have much of a literary voice. Now, however, there are voices representing millions of Dalits—people who certainly do speak for themselves, but many of whom cannot write tor themselves, and would not be published if they did. Further, as Bama says, "...everyone now acknowledges that for the past few years Dalit writings have had an enormous impact on society.
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