Narrating gendered subaltern a study of selected dalit women life narratives

Abstract

The thesis, Narrating Gendered Subaltern: A Study of Selected Dalit Women Life newlineNarraitves, which highlights the emergence of dalit women writers as pioneers of newlineemancipation, explores dalit life narratives as politically loaded resistance discourses. newlineThe first chapter discusses the theoretical frame work of the thesis, which is an newlineintersection of Gender Studies and Subaltern Studies and their related aesthetics. The newlinesecond chapter discusses the emergence of autobiography as a literary genre. The third newlinechapter discusses the concept of articulation as a form of resistance as the narrators newlineacquire a subject position and identity. The final chapter describes the various narrative newlinestrategies adopted by the selected dalit women writers to express their subjectivity and newlineidentity. The research findings are summed up in the conclusion. newline