Agential Discourses: Genesis and Evolution of Dalit Women’s Literary Voice

Suresh Kumar in his book Literature of Protest: Reading Dalit Women’s Autobiographies and Fiction gives a comprehensive account of the corpus of Dalit literature penned by women as it voices their sustained and systemic protest against caste, the caste divide and patriarchal control. Kumar suggests that Dalit women’s literature as ‘a distinct form of writing through popular songs,