Issue Details

CONTRIBUTION OF SELECTED INDIAN WRITERS IN DALIT FEMISINM: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

ABSTRACT

Indian writers in their own languages are trying to focus the problems of women, especially of the Dalit women. Their contribution limited to the languages to which they belong. So far not much of work is done in the fields of comparative literature. Geetha Nagabhushana is the prominent among modern kannada writers. She has achieved much in forms like novel, story, play, criticism etc. She has expanded Kannada literary sky from writings; has brought honour to Kannada literature. Like her, Sivagami is prominent among Tamil writers. She has given great contribution to Tamil language and literature. She has expressed her thoughts through story, novel, play, criticism etc. Geetha Nagabhushana and Sivagami are almost contemporaries. Both have written about Dalit women- their exploitation, harassment, pain, blind beliefs, stupidity- dealt with these mirroring the above courageously. So this article is an effort to evaluate the works of Dalit feminist writers Geetha Nagabhushana a Kannada writer and Sivagami, IAS a Tamil writer for their view points about the Dalit women, their treatment in this society and about the expression of them. As powerful writers how much they were able to exploit their language to achieve their goal will also be studied in this research. So this article deals with the comparative study of them in their story and novels.

FULL TEXT