DALIT POETRY IN INDIA – A HOICK WAVE IN INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE. Literature has the power and ability to construct and protect the cultural space of various communities. It also plays a vital role in providing more opportunities for self realization of any community by providing necessary information about the cultural, history and customary practices. The greater tradition could be visualized, imagined and witnessed through an effective literary presentation. This leads to the self realization of one’s cultural identity which will make the individual to hold the culture and other identity at the top. It is being adopted as a strategy for social change and social movements by the people in power, since literature possesses a greater value in the political dynamics of any state. These days discussions are going on the problems of marginalised groups of people all over the world-their social, ethnic, economic and cultural problems. Marginality with all its aspects is inde...
FIGURES OF SPEECH... A Figure of Speech is a departure from the ordinary form of expression, or the ordinary course of ideas in order to produce a greater effect. Figures of speech often provides emphasis, freshness of expression, or clarity. Figurative language is the opposite of literal language. Literal language means exactly what it says. Figurative language means something different to (and usually more than) what it says on the surface Functions of Figures of Speech: To arrest the attention and retain it To stimulate the imagination To excite the emotions To compel by their Force and to allure by their charm To persuade or to please Figures of Speech may be classified as under: a) Those based on Resemblance such as Allegory, Apostrophe, Euphemism, Imagery, Metaphor, Pathetic Fallacy, Personification and Simile b) Those based on contrast such as Antithesis, Epigram, Oxymoron, Paradox and Pun c) Those based on association such as Metonymy, Symbol an...
Contemporary Indian writing can be seen as a record of the changing Indian society with various social, political, religious and even technological factors in the background, acting as catalysts. However, there have always been a few issues in every society including ours which never received treatment or even mention in the mainstream literary works. The growing popularity and interest in Dalit literature is an answer to this challenge of representing the 'unrepresentable' in society. Recently, writers and activists are opening up for public debates on issues of caste, identity and the politics of Dalithood, its manifestation and representation in public life and literature. The onset of globalization in India enabled dalits to raise the issue of discrimination based on caste in international forums. Dalit activists and intellectuals made out a case for recognition of caste-based discrimination in India as being similar to racial discrimination in the west, in the w...
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