Gendering dalit a critique of Tamil dalit womens fiction

Abstract

newlineThe thesis, Gendering Dalit: A Critique of Tamil Dalit Women s newlineFiction is an attempt to examine P. Sivakami s The Grip of Change, Bama s newlineSangati and Meena Kandasamy s The Gypsy Goddess, foregrounding the newlineintersectionality of caste, class, and gender. The thesis locates women within newlinethe discursive space of dalit feminism, focusing on the aspects of multiple newlineoppressions and resistance. The analysis of the selected fiction attempts to newlinecapture difference as the focus of feminist analysis. The study is structured newlinepredominantly by the theories of dalit feminism and resistance.