Representation of Indian Dalit and Diasporic Women in Select Literary Narratives

Abstract

This paper comprehends the representation of Indian women in select dalit and diasporic literary narratives. This is perceived in terms of the portrayal of women on the basis of gender relations and looks at the way social behaviours and roles are internalized by them. This pioneer study bridges the gap by relating the literary representation of Indian women of two diverse marginalized societies. The select literary narratives represent Indian women as dalit and diaspora, in India and the United States respectively. In spite of the cultural and social disparities, most of their depiction is identical. They appear as multiply jeopardized along various similar and different vectors of socialization. Their lives depict a transformation from rejection to resistance. But such identical similarities do not associate them relatively. The paper draws the attention to the unspeakable marginality of sisterhood between the dalit and Indian diasporic women. Such appalling existence and parallel helps to construct similar knowledge of survival among other marginalized groups on a global scale.