A CRITICAL STUDY OF DALIT SELECTED AUTOBIOGRAPHY
The present research entitled “A Critical Study of Dalit Autobiography” explores selected Dalit autobiographies: The Prisons We Broke, Ooru Keri, Karukku, and The Scar. This study deals with treatment of Dalit social problems. The selected autobiographies Dalit oppressed people are the eye-witness accounts of the horrors of their lives. This study underlines inhuman treatment done on Dalits by upper caste people under the veneer of ritual purity and pollution. The four autobiographies declare in one voice that untouchability is not an evil of a bygone era but it is present in all domains of life despite constitutional remedies and democratic redressal measures. This paper touches on Harlem Renaissance and Black Panther Movement. It focuses Dalit point of view. The paper exhibits Dalit social realism and expresses different views of critics about Dalit writings. Further, the paper examines Dalit’s Socio-economic condition.
Marginalization, Social Realism, Exploitation, Socio Political Condition, Socio-Economic Condition, Subjugation, Dalit Point of View