TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chatterjee, Debi (ed)
ED  - Mukherjee, Sipra (ed)
TI  - Under My Dark Skin Flows A Red River: Translations of Dalit writings From Bengal
SN  - 9789381345276
U1  - 891.43099221 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Kolkata
PB  - Somya
KW  - Dalits in Literature
KW  - Bangali Literature
KW  - Politics in Literature
N1  - 'We too have our Sun', writes a woman Dalit poet, challenging the established canons of Bangla literature that resist Dalit's entry. With translations from Bengal only beginning in the twenty-first century, Dalit writings have remained largely unrepresented in the corpus of pan-Indian Dalit Literature. Yet Bangla Dalit literature has a long history: the songs of Sufis, Bauls, Fakirs and many other grass roots religious mainstream Bengal, this was a robust and popular body of oral literature from the margins. The challenges and rebellions that characterize modern Dalit literature are not unique to modernity, existing in the living tradition.

In the late twentieth century, Dalits' writings have been published by small publishers and little magazines, ushering a new vibrancy in Bangla literature. This anthology presents translations of a selection of essays, songs, poetry, short stories, extracts from autobiographies and novels as an introduction to a spirited and dynamic literature from Bengal
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