The unheard voices select Dalit Women autobiographies

Abstract

Dalit autobiography continues to narrate the saga of struggles and finally it ends with the achievements of the narrator. Self gets its construction in Dalit autobiographies. Here the narrator ruminates the journey of past experiences. Still Dalit autobiographies have taken the form of a genre of controversy as there still remains unaddressed, unresolved questions related to its issues and form. Dalit autobiographies are narrated by the author staying in the crisis at that very moment. It always talks about the society as well as community issues by which they are victimized. Their individual self gets identified through the collective self . It talks about their daily struggle, daily discrimination, humiliation that they face. Such autobiographies never start with childhood and end at old age. Those are written at the present scenario they are in. Here, identity plays the pivotal role to play. Identity crisis , double identity discrimination , gendering caste , victimhood , untouchability are the prime features of the genre which are never familiar in the mainstream autobiographies.