THE RISE OF DALIT LITERATURE AS COUNTERCULTURE THROUGH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Abstract

This paper discusses on how Dalit Literature act as counter-culture which is a cultural reformation. The essence of Dalit literature is community feeling and it is a literature of humanity which serves the right cause and possesses all the merits to be called a true literature. Dalit literature has formed an alternative culture, ruptures the structured social frames and it results in the production of counter cultural resistance to existing culture. The literary tradition of Indian narrative technique and language replaced by the auto narrative of Dalit writers. Dalit writers who dwell in democratic society rebound their affinity with their community and come up with their own specific cultural reformation and to register their subversive voices through their works.