Marginality, Suffering, Justice: Questions of Dalit Dignity in Cultural Texts
Published By: eSocialsSciences, Mumbai, India | Published Date: October, 31 , 2017Dalit dignity is organized around caste-determined labour that fits them into hierarchies of social dignity but which, in savage irony, renders them undignified as humans through social death. Second, the self-conscious, agential narrative enactment of life-as-death and the performance of death enables the Dalit text to establish the dignity of the Dalit body.
Author(s): Pramod K. Nayar | Posted on: Oct 31, 2017 | Views() | Download (666)