ABSTRACT
Dalit autobiographical writing has received much critical academic attention of late, besides accolades from the reading public. This essay looks at the emergent Dalit autobiographical writings in Malayalam, and the negotiations with the dominant imagination about Dalits at the capitalistic conjuncture of print culture. This conjuncture is significant as it evokes the possibilities of articulation. At the same time, it is limiting in the sense that it reproduces the existing social inequalities based on class, caste and gender in the mode of cultural production.
