Dalit Consciousness and Imitative Cultural Symbolism in Coming Out as Dalit by Yashica Dutt

Dr Vibha Bhoot

Vol-8,Issue-4,July - August 2023

Author: Dr Vibha Bhoot

Keywords: Culture, Dalit, Memoir, Trauma, Women.

Abstract: The social context of traumatic incidents defines, conditions, and propagates socio-cultural prescribed responses to certain types of experience often trying to regulate the strictures of forfeiture, memory, and grieving. Since traumatic events focus the fissures and gaps of the societal oppressive conditions, as well as the expansive limit of demonstrating experiences and incidents of fringes, they give birth to the politics of mourning, which is impelled by the societal prerequisite to surround, domesticate, and regulate any dynamism disturbing its recognized order. She elucidates several modern institutions that foster caste hierarchy in society. The article focuses on how Yashica Dutt's writing aims to create the concept of caste in the Indian socio-cultural aspect. Finally, the article makes the case that imitative cultural symbolism is a part of one’s identity and can be seen as a component of response towards inferiority and identity crisis. The article continues by pointing out how similar synergies are developed with racial discourses.

Article Info: Received: 05 Jun 2023; Received in revised form: 09 Jul 2023; Accepted: 18 Jul 2023; Available online: 26 Jul 2023

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.84.10