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    Bama's Karukku: Dalit autobiography as testimonio
    ( 2006-12-01) Nayar, Pramod K.
    This essay argues that Dalit autobiographies must be treated as testimonio, atrocity narratives that document trauma and strategies of survival. Using Bama's Karukku as a case-study, it explores the shift between the generic conventions of individual life-writing and collective biography in this text. It analyses the strategy of witnessing in Bama's narrative, arguing that she functions as a witness to a community's suffering, and calls upon readers to undertake "rhetorical listening" as secondary witnesses. This act of recording trauma and witnessing, the essay proposes, is one of subaltern agency. Copyright © 2006 SAGE Publications.
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    The politics of form in dalit fiction: Bama's sangati and sivakami's the grip of change
    ( 2011-10-01) Nayar, Pramod K.
    This article examines two Dalit novels, Bama's Sangati and Sivakami's The Grip of Change. It argues that the two novels hybridise the very novel form through the appropriation of different registers, the mythic, the historical and the immediate. It argues that this narrative hybridisation is a political project, reflecting a radicalisation of consciousness itself. Bama and Sivakami, I argue further, transform folkloric and local-mythic language and narrative by infusing into it the language of rights, Ambedkarite philosophy, dignity and the law. The language of the law and rights, I suggest, have entered common usage and thus results in a radicalising of the common sense, so that folkloric language itself becomes a language of protest and political challenge. © 2011 CWDS SAGE Publications.