Introduction

This book Writing the Self: A Thematic Study of Dalit Autobiographies is the research of the author. Being thematic in nature, the book is divided into five chapters. The main objective of the book is to bring out the common issues in the select Dalit personal narratives.

Methodology

Instead of going for a mere textual analysis, the author did an in-depth analysis of each autobiography taking the thematic issues into consideration. The text deals with the life aspects of Dalit communities.

Significance of Dalit Autobiographies

Dalit Autobiography among the other literary forms remains a successful genre in representing the issues of Dalit culture and movements in Dalit idiom. It is through Dalit Autobiographies, the writers express their sufferings, sorrows and victimisation due to the oppressive culture of caste Hindus.

Through their memories, the Dalits reconstruct their broken and long silenced history and demonstrate their rights and identity duly reconstituting themselves with the rest of Dalit communities.