The academic literati from around the country will home in at Jai Hind College to opine, debate and cover various areas in Afro-American literature —including a comparative component where Dalit literature will be compared with Black literature, on September 9.
Jai Hind will host seminar on Black and Dalit literature on September 9.
The academic literati from around the country will home in at Jai Hind College to opine, debate and cover various areas in Afro-American literature —including a comparative component where Dalit literature will be compared with Black literature, on September 9.
“The comparative component will help us relate the lessons drawn from the Black movement to Indian situation. If you observe, many marginalised literatures are influenced by Black literature,” says Kamal Jadhav, head, Department of English, Jai Hind College and convener of the conference.
The panel of resource persons consists of academic scholars and professors from different parts of the country: Chandrashekhar Jahagirdar, Shivaji University, Kolhapur; Tapan Basu from Hindu College, Delhi; Sunanda Pal from SNDT, Mumbai; Meera Manavi from Osmania University, Hyderabad and Maya Pandit, CIEFL, Hyderabad University.
They will speak about a range of topics including slave narratives, Harlem Renaissance, representation of the slave in contemporary American literature, Dalit women writers and a comparative study between Black and Dalit literature.
The existing studies showcase a great deal of comparisons already been made between them, says Chandrashekhar Jahagirdar, who is presenting a paper titled A Comparative Study of Black and Dalit Literature.
“Amongst other parameters that draw the similarities and differences between these two literatures, I will be focusing on the role played by religion, gender and genre in these two literatures. For instance, after Ambedkar’s embrace of Buddhism, how has Buddhism influenced Dalit literature, or how Marx has shaped and influenced Dalit writers, is a very interesting study,” he says. Maya Pandit on the other hand will be focusing on the writings of two important woman Dalit writers, Urmila Pawar and Baby Kamble.
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