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- Title
The Goddess English: Language of Protest and Empowerment.
- Authors
Sayeed, Farhana
- Abstract
A few Dalit activists call English the Dalit Goddess as the language of resistance, protest and empowerment. The growth and significance of a socio-cultural revolution is achieved through English translation of Dalit writings. Balbir Madhopuri's Changiya Rukh (Against the Night) is one such Dalit autobiography to appear in English translation. Madhopuri argues that caste based discrimination is one of the worst forms of racism because it is practiced against one's own countrymen. Like race, it is determined by birth and does not end with death but passes from generation to generation. Theoretically it is possible to escape caste (unlike race) by changing one's religion but practically caste follows us into whichever religion we convert to.
- Subjects
DALITS; ENGLISH language; GODS in literature; LANGUAGE &; languages; RELIGION
- Publication
Language in India, 2013, Vol 13, Issue 6, p267
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article