The Dalit Literature that now occupies a seminal space in the contemporary literary domain actually took its birth from the odious system of untouchability and casteism prevalent in the Indian society since ages. It emerged on the scene as a realistic reflection of the conditions of the oppressed classes in India. The literature was essentially against exploitation and formally began as a movement in 1960’s. It was not an ordinary literary movement but a byproduct of identity as well as a constituent of that identity.
In the Indian society, the class war has always been a dominating force and has always lead to continuous clashes between the oppressed and the oppressors. These conflicts, however, received a considerable attention in the …show more content…
Every verse of Meena Kandasamy encapsulates the dynamics of pain and protest. Her blunt and outspoken way of writing makes her one of a kind. She possesses a fiercely feminine sensibility that cries out from the man made and insensitive world order. Gender and sexuality take a front and centre stage in her poems. She draws upon the feminist resources of thought by bringing in themes present in the poems of many woman saints like Ammaiyar, Akka and Meera. She unveils all the bold ways in which women revealed or expressed themselves from time to time. In her another collection of poems, Ms. Militancy Meena directly starts with the attack at archetypal patriarchal structures. She begins her attack by targeting gods seeing them and labeling them as the primary sources for the propagation of patriarchal ideology. She says in the beginning to her book Ms Militancy: You are the repressed Ram from whom I run away repeatedly/ You are Indra causing bloodshed…you are all men for whom I would never moan, never mourn. You are the conscience of Hindu society. Your myths put me in my place. Therefore, I take perverse pleasure in such deliberate paraphrase. (Kandasamy,
In the Indian society, the class war has always been a dominating force and has always lead to continuous clashes between the oppressed and the oppressors. These conflicts, however, received a considerable attention in the …show more content…
Every verse of Meena Kandasamy encapsulates the dynamics of pain and protest. Her blunt and outspoken way of writing makes her one of a kind. She possesses a fiercely feminine sensibility that cries out from the man made and insensitive world order. Gender and sexuality take a front and centre stage in her poems. She draws upon the feminist resources of thought by bringing in themes present in the poems of many woman saints like Ammaiyar, Akka and Meera. She unveils all the bold ways in which women revealed or expressed themselves from time to time. In her another collection of poems, Ms. Militancy Meena directly starts with the attack at archetypal patriarchal structures. She begins her attack by targeting gods seeing them and labeling them as the primary sources for the propagation of patriarchal ideology. She says in the beginning to her book Ms Militancy: You are the repressed Ram from whom I run away repeatedly/ You are Indra causing bloodshed…you are all men for whom I would never moan, never mourn. You are the conscience of Hindu society. Your myths put me in my place. Therefore, I take perverse pleasure in such deliberate paraphrase. (Kandasamy,