Journal article
Digital Literary Journalism in Opposition: Meena Kandasamy and the Dalit Online Movement in India
Literary journalism studies, Vol.11(1), pp.86-99
06/01/2019
Abstract
In recent years, several marginalized groups in the Global South, including Dalits or "Untouchables" in India, have embraced web-based literary journalism as a mode of protest against the establishment. The Dalit protest movement, which advocates for the rights and protection of India's 230 million outcastes, has gained momentum largely due to its combined use of digital media and literary journalism. The work of Dalit feminist author Meena Kandasamy illustrates how literary perspectives are integral to and coextensive with the advocacy journalism of digital news platforms and social media in online protest movements. In protest poetry, song, and memoir the personal bleeds into the political, as it does in activist journalism, fueling the social movement. Kandasamy's literary journalism articulates Dalit literature's anticaste political aesthetic, particularly through her strategic use of digital media. India's activist digital media are currently propelled by the nation's literary culture and its creative and imaginative modes of expression, bearing important implications for digital literary journalism studies.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Digital Literary Journalism in Opposition: Meena Kandasamy and the Dalit Online Movement in India
- Creators
- David O. Dowling - Univ Iowa, Sch Journalism & Mass Commun, Iowa City, IA 52242 USASubin Paul - Univ Iowa, Sch Journalism & Mass Commun, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Literary journalism studies, Vol.11(1), pp.86-99
- Publisher
- Int Assoc Literary Journalism Studies
- ISSN
- 1944-897X
- eISSN
- 1944-8988
- Number of pages
- 7
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/01/2019
- Academic Unit
- Journalism and Mass Communication
- Record Identifier
- 9984307651902771
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