Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Patrick Olivelle and Indology Major Publications of Patrick Olivelle
- I WORD, TEXT, CONTEXT
- II CUSTOM AND LAW
- III BUDDHISTS AND JAINS ASSELVES AND OTHERS
- IV (RE)CONSIDERING GEOGRAPHICAL AND CONCEPTUAL BOUNDARIES
- Spiritual Practice and Corporate Identity in Medieval Sufi Communities of Iran, Central Asia, and India: The Khalvatī/'Ishqī/Shaṭṭārī Continuum
- Digesting the Sacrifices: Ritual Internalization in Jewish, Hindu, and Manichaean Traditions
- The Hindutva Underground: Hindu Nationalism and the Indian National Congress in Late Colonial and Early Postcolonial India
- Marking the Boundaries of a New Literary Identity: The Assertion of ‘Dalit Consciousness’ in Dalit Literary Criticism
- Young Śvetaketu in America: Learning to be Hindu in the Diaspora
- List of Contributors
Marking the Boundaries of a New Literary Identity: The Assertion of ‘Dalit Consciousness’ in Dalit Literary Criticism
from IV - (RE)CONSIDERING GEOGRAPHICAL AND CONCEPTUAL BOUNDARIES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Patrick Olivelle and Indology Major Publications of Patrick Olivelle
- I WORD, TEXT, CONTEXT
- II CUSTOM AND LAW
- III BUDDHISTS AND JAINS ASSELVES AND OTHERS
- IV (RE)CONSIDERING GEOGRAPHICAL AND CONCEPTUAL BOUNDARIES
- Spiritual Practice and Corporate Identity in Medieval Sufi Communities of Iran, Central Asia, and India: The Khalvatī/'Ishqī/Shaṭṭārī Continuum
- Digesting the Sacrifices: Ritual Internalization in Jewish, Hindu, and Manichaean Traditions
- The Hindutva Underground: Hindu Nationalism and the Indian National Congress in Late Colonial and Early Postcolonial India
- Marking the Boundaries of a New Literary Identity: The Assertion of ‘Dalit Consciousness’ in Dalit Literary Criticism
- Young Śvetaketu in America: Learning to be Hindu in the Diaspora
- List of Contributors
Summary
Through your literary creations cleanse the prescribed values of life and culture. Do not limit your objectives. Remove the darkness in villages by the light of your pen. Do not forget that in our country the world of the Dalits and the ignored classes is vast. Get to know intimately their pain and sorrow, and try through your literature to bring progress to their lives. True humanity resides there.
Dr. B.R. AmbedkarIntroduction
In just the last few years, scholarly attention to the subject of Dalit literature in India has increased almost as dramatically as the recent surge in the production of Dalit literature across India. The first significant example of Dalit writing in English translation appeared in Orient Longman's anthology of the literature of the Dalit Panthers, Poisoned Bread (Dangle 1992), and though for almost a decade afterwards there was no significant publication of Dalit literary texts outside of India, save for the lifelong work of scholars such as Eleanor Zelliot and Gail Omvedt, the dearth of Western access to Dalit texts and scholarly attention paid to them has recently turned around. English translations of Dalit literature now abound, thanks to a surge in interest by academic publishing houses in India and abroad as well as the rise of specialty publishing houses such as Navayana whose entire catalog focuses on matters of caste in literature and society.
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- Religion and Identity in South Asia and BeyondEssays in Honor of Patrick Olivelle, pp. 347 - 368Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2011
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