Even the concept of intersectionality, I think, is better understood not through just academic papers but stories of people who are located at these different axes of power. I have always thought that fiction plays an important role in taking that which we take as familiar and making their underlying social structures apparent. Thus, Dalit autobiographies and fiction occupy an important political position as works of protest. For example, Sharmila Rege has been considered to be one of the important figures in Dalit feminism. Even though Dalit Feminism is understood to be the ideas of Dalit women activists and writers, the theoretical formulation of this discourse is mostly shaped by a few non-Dalit feminists and Dalit intellectuals. Her autobiographical work Aaydaan (Marathi original) translated as The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman’s Memoirs by Maya Pandit is much celebrated.
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