Aesthetics of Protest: An Analysis of Telugu Dalit Literature

<p>This research article is an effort to recommend a historical<br>sketch of the Dalit Movement Literature in Telugu regions.<br>The argument in the article is that the Dalit Movement in<br>India is an ideological Movement for cultivating an<br>egalitarian social order, a struggle for their identity and also<br>a movement for their human dignity. The paper also<br>discusses internal dynamics of the Movement. Dalit literature<br>as a literature of provocations/ challenges/ summons or revolt<br>actually proponent’s human liberation, glorifies human, and<br>challenges the preponderance of lineage, race, and caste.<br>Telugu Dalit writers made writing as a weapon and uttered/<br>articulated/ conveyed their feelings. The present paper will<br>deal with the emergence of the Telugu Dalit literature as the<br>Dalit writers through various genres articulated their voice of<br>dissent and protest against marginalization, discrimination,<br>suppression and domination by the upper elites of society. </p>