Author: Soma Jash
DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.70798/Bijmrd/04030011
Abstract: The interwoven themes of identity, labour, and the body as places of oppression and resistance are examined in this article’s analysis of Dalit feminist literature. The daily realities of caste-based marginalization exacerbated by patriarchal structures are highlighted in Dalit women’s narratives, particularly in autobiographical works and literary testimony. This study shows how these texts reclaim agency by redefining selfhood, narrating labour beyond economic categories, and representing embodied experiences of violence and resistance. It does this by analysing a selection of works by Dalit women writers alongside feminist and intersectional theoretical frameworks. The results show that Dalit feminist narratives are important venues of embodied knowledge production and socio-political critique that subvert both Dalit and mainstream feminist discourses.
Keywords: Examined, Feminist, Labour, Women, Violence, Autobiographical.
Page No: 70-78