When A Dalit Woman Writes Poems

Aesthetics in Dalit Women's Poetry

by Jaydeep Sarangi and Barninee Mukherjee

2021174 pages

About the book

“Dalit woman poetsare extremely earthy. Most oftheir imageries and idiomsare tied to elements of earth, be it water, trees, forests, or the soil. But what is unique is the waythey weaves these elements to create a sense of the primordial state of being, where emotions run raw. Barninee Mukherjee's book takes up thechallenge in translating the anger and resistanceunderlying the language rather than the language itself. It is by channeling these sensibilities through the translated tongue/texturethat this work hopes to achieve the language of resistance that dalit feminist literature is emblematic of. A must read!” - Prof. Jaydeep Sarangi, a seasoned critic, poet and translator of Surviving in My World: Growing up Dalit in Bengal, is anchored in Kolkata/Jhargram.