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Role Of Translation In Dalit Literature

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The rich diversity of human community cannot be appreciated or even understood without the essential tool of translation and it plays an important role in the literary life of India which in its multilingual, multicultural nature, is a microcosm of the whole world. The marginalization of the Dalits in India by the hierarchical upper-castes and the resultant sorrows and sufferings, their culture and beliefs which had been hitherto unrevealed in the mainstream literature is now exposed to the world through the literature of their own. Since many works of Dalit Literature are available in regional languages restricting them to respective regions, English translation of some of the texts seems to be a conduit to take the translated Dalit Literature closer to mainstream literature. Analyzing some translated autobiographies such as Urmila Pawar’s The Weave of My Life, Baby Kamble’s The Prisons We Broke, Bama’s Karukku and Sangati, the present paper attempts to show the role of translation in the expansion of Dalit literature from the frontiers of marginal literature towards mainstream literature.
Key Words: Translation, Dalit, Conduit, Frontier, Mainstream.

Literature is a window that provides space for the voices that have been silenced or remained suppressed for a long time to ventilate their views and translations widen the network of readers by breaking down the linguistic barriers and by disintegrating cultural borders. It makes the peripheral experience available to a

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