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Resistance through nature. Natural motifs in Tamil Dalit literature

SYSNO ASEP	0452767
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Ostatní články
Title	Resistance through nature. Natural motifs in Tamil Dalit literature
Author(s)	Hons, Pavel (OU-W)_{RID, SAI, ORCID}
Source Title	Pandanus - ISSN 1802-7997 Roč. 9, č. 1 (2015), s. 71-88
Number of pages	18 s.
Language	eng - English
Country	CZ - Czech Republic
Keywords	Dalit ; Nature ; Literature ; Tamil
Subject RIV	AJ - Letters, Mass-media, Audiovision
CEZ	AV0Z9021901 - OU-W
Annotation	From the point of view of ecocriticism the article tries to analyse the role of nature in the writings of Tamil Dalits. It deals with the aesthetics of Dalit literature and the attitude of Dalit writers towards metaphors and other figures of speech. The article argues that nature plays a marginal role in Dalit literature. In contrast to mainstream writing it is not used as a description of beauty in a symbolic or metaphorical way. Rather it is an instrument used to express and underline the miseries and hardships of Dalits. Further, the article comments on the values associated with the most frequently mentioned natural phenomena in the selected extracts.
Workplace	Oriental Institute
Contact	Zuzana Kvapilová, kvapilova@orient.cas.cz, Tel.: 266 053 950
Year of Publishing	2016

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