Dalits Vs Aboriginal Australians : Convergences & Divergences

The present book is essentially a comparative discourse on literatures of margin that seeks to look more closely at one of the most important literary genres - autobiography. To accomplish this, the author has taken into consideration some of the most important autobiographies from the two domains of writings: Dalit writing and Aboriginal writing. The study investigates the characteristics of these convergences and divergences between the two literatures. The author has explicitly highlighted how Dalit and Aboriginal literatures are mirror images of the lives of the people in terms of sorrows, problems, pains and revolts of Dalit and Aboriginal societies. There are numerous instances of painful experiences and fighting instincts that find expression in these literatures. More than anything else, the 'right' or 'ability' of the marginalized group to write literature comes under immediate contestation. Despite differences of country and socio-political and cultural conditions, the similarity in the life experience of the two communities derives from the fact that both were targets of excess injustice and exploitation --- their experience of pain is of a world-scale.