Dalit Feminist Discourse: Women in Neo- Literary Canon

Abstract

The challenge to and of feminist writing lies in negotiating women’s identity defined in these terms through simultaneous claim and disavowal: women are classed, caste and communal subjects, and both privilege and oppression may be grounded in identity recognised in those terms (in addition to being hierarchised in terms of gender); at the same time, in the interests of a transformative politics, difference must be managed, if not transcended.’