![]() The life narratives examined include Baby Kamble's The Prisons We Broke, Urmila Pawar's The Weave of my Life, Sujatha Gidla's Ants Among Elephants and Viramma, written and published by Jean-Luc and Josiane Racine and narrated by Viramma. This work uses the ‘triple burden’ as a framing lens, and is a comparative analysis of four pieces of Dalit discourse written or narrated by Dalit women which detail their lives between the 1940's and 1990's. ![]() ![]() The plight of Dalit women is distinct from those of both their Dalit male counterparts and privileged caste female counterparts, as is uniquely characterized by what scholars Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal and Wandana Sonalkar deem a ‘triple burden’: of not only caste discrimination and economic deprivation, but also external caste and internal Dalit patriarchy. The case of Dalit women, who have often been left out of both Dalit studies and feminist inquiries, is uniquely articulated within Dalit women’s life writings. ![]()
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