Research Paper Anand
Sanjay Parmanand Lalani
Associate Professor
English Department
Shri Surat Jilla Sahakari Bank Commerce College & Shri Sayan Sahakari khand Udhyog Arts College, Olpad. Dist. Surat. Gujarat.
E-mail ID: sanjay_lalani07@rediffmail.com
Contact No. 98797 07046
8th September 2014
Urmila Pawar’s ‘Aaydan’ (The Wave of My Life: Dalit Woman’s Memoir): A New Feministic Movement of Dalit Consciousness
Abstract:
Indian women voices have been silenced for ages due to various reasons. The contemporary Indian women are bold and well-educated. They are thoroughly aware with their rights and duties. They need to spread their voices in order to strengthen the female perspective. Through memoir genre, they are able to write from a female perspective and create a strong voice for feminism. By sharing the reality of the female experience, the memoirist ultimately reveals truth about her own life. When women communicate personal, they break the silence of oppression and create a powerful force. Urmila Pawar is a noted Dalit writer and feminist. Her memoir “Aaydan” (The Wave of my life: Dalit woman’s memoir) is originally written in Marathi language and later translated in English by Dr. Maya Pandit and Urmilatai become an international personality. In this bold and intimate memoir Pawar share her personal tragedy including interpersonal and inter communal relational clashes and tolerance. It problematizes major issues of cast, class and gender in the Indian context.
Dalit in India are voiceless and marginalized. Even in this scientific new era most of the Dalits are still surviving under uncongenial and hostile atmosphere like subjugation, caste based oppression and discriminations. It is said that Marathi Literature is the forerunner of all modern Dalit Literature in India because of the legacy of Mahatma Jyotiba Govind Phule and Bhim Rao Ambedkar. Under the influence of these great personalities, many Dalit writers have been consciously contributing to
Associate Professor
English Department
Shri Surat Jilla Sahakari Bank Commerce College & Shri Sayan Sahakari khand Udhyog Arts College, Olpad. Dist. Surat. Gujarat.
E-mail ID: sanjay_lalani07@rediffmail.com
Contact No. 98797 07046
8th September 2014
Urmila Pawar’s ‘Aaydan’ (The Wave of My Life: Dalit Woman’s Memoir): A New Feministic Movement of Dalit Consciousness
Abstract:
Indian women voices have been silenced for ages due to various reasons. The contemporary Indian women are bold and well-educated. They are thoroughly aware with their rights and duties. They need to spread their voices in order to strengthen the female perspective. Through memoir genre, they are able to write from a female perspective and create a strong voice for feminism. By sharing the reality of the female experience, the memoirist ultimately reveals truth about her own life. When women communicate personal, they break the silence of oppression and create a powerful force. Urmila Pawar is a noted Dalit writer and feminist. Her memoir “Aaydan” (The Wave of my life: Dalit woman’s memoir) is originally written in Marathi language and later translated in English by Dr. Maya Pandit and Urmilatai become an international personality. In this bold and intimate memoir Pawar share her personal tragedy including interpersonal and inter communal relational clashes and tolerance. It problematizes major issues of cast, class and gender in the Indian context.
Dalit in India are voiceless and marginalized. Even in this scientific new era most of the Dalits are still surviving under uncongenial and hostile atmosphere like subjugation, caste based oppression and discriminations. It is said that Marathi Literature is the forerunner of all modern Dalit Literature in India because of the legacy of Mahatma Jyotiba Govind Phule and Bhim Rao Ambedkar. Under the influence of these great personalities, many Dalit writers have been consciously contributing to
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