期刊名称：Lapis Lazuli : an International Literary Journal
电子版ISSN：2249-4529
出版年度：2015
卷号：5
期号：2
出版社：Pinter Society of India
摘要：The paper highlights the history of Dalit Literature in West Bengal as well as the engagement of Bengali Dalit authors with language. The emergence of Dalit writings in the eastern part of India has been quite late, even though radical movements to make changes in the nomenclature of the erstwhile „Chandalas‟ had begun as early as the latter half of the nineteenth century. Yet it took almost a century for Dalit writers in Bengal to come up with their life histories. One prominent reason for the late upsurge can be the presence of the earlier ruling party, which has vehemently and consistently denied the presence of caste. The use of the word „progressive‟ is deliberate here, for the paper wants to throw some light on the formation of a new „self‟ through their autobiographies.The paper takes into account two narratives- one is an autobiography, D. P. Das‟s The Untouchable Story, and the other is a fictionalised presentation of an autobiography, Manoranjan Bepari‟s Chandal Jibon. D. P. Das writes in English, even though the contexts are drawn from Bengal, while Bepari writes in the rustic language of Bengal. Thus, both try to present interplay of radicalism and oppression and how they had counter-rejected it.
关键词：Language; „counter-rejection‟; the Namashudra Movement; humiliation; delegitimizing the hegemonic structure; materialization of the self.
