The Subaltern Speaks and Asserts: The Autobiographies of Narendra Jadhav, Omprakash Valmiki and Sharankumar Limbale

by R.P. Singh

About the Subaltern Speaks and Asserts In this emerging field of dalit literature the place of the self as both the sufferer and the creator of text is indivisible. The dalit writers and critics argue insistently that non-dalits cannot produce authentic dalit literature. This critical belief has behind it the thinking that the necessary creative inspiration to write this literature can come only from the experiences of living as dalits. In this context the place of the dalit autobiographies becomes automatically central, because it is here that we come across the authenticities of lived experiences which form the bed-rock of dalit literature. The author has selected three dalit autobiographies for closes analyses.

130 pages, Hardcover

Published September 12, 2013