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Dalit Feminism:
A New Strategy in the Selected Short Stories of Gogu Shyamala’s
Father May Be an Elephant and Mother Only a Small Basket, But...

Balande Chandoba Narsing, M. Phil./ Ph.D. Research Scholar

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to project how the Dalit writers have been acquiring and creating a space for themselves in the literary world which was once denied to them. Gogu Shyamala demonstrates differences rather than subsuming to the universalized mainstream practises of so-called ‘feminism’. How the Dalit feminists have been maintaining their differences is also analysed in this paper.

Lived Experiences

Generally Dalit men and women writers write about their ‘lived experiences’ thereby forming a new discourse. The objective of this paper is to bring to light how Gogu Shyamala has depicted the inhuman practices such as ‘brutal patriarchy’, ‘violence within domestic life’ and ‘discrimination on the basis of gender and caste’ through her short stories.

Differences in Feminism

This paper is an attempt to project how Gogu Shyamala demonstrates differences rather than subsuming to the universalized mainstream practises of the so-called ‘feminism’ through her writing. Dalit writers have been shaping their literary works with a consciousness of maintaining their uniqueness. Generally Dalit men and women writers write about their ‘lived experiences’. And sometimes these lived experiences form a new discourse. Urmila Pawar in Maharashtra, Bama in Tamil Nadu, and Gogu Shyamala in Andhra Pradesh have contributed much to the Dalit feminist movement. The issues that have been brought to light by Dalit feminists are the ‘brutal patriarchy’, ‘violence within domestic life’ and ‘discrimination on the basis of gender and caste’.

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Balande Chandoba Narsing, M.Phil./ Ph.D. Research Scholar
Comparative Literature
Central University of Gujarat
Gandhinagar- 382030
Gujarat
India
balandechad25pondi@gmail.com
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