The Importance Of Dalit Literature

Literature is written to inspire and influence the readers. Usually, literature records the thoughts of great mind. Literature attracts the readers in two ways; one is through its matter and another through its manner. To be specific, through its matter, literature attracts the reader and is interesting for him in some way or the other. It can also be said that it provides him pleasure and joy. But through its manner, literature is not only pleasing to the reader but also something that provides him the plethora of knowledge. Literature and society go hand in hand or they are interconnected. Literature influences the society in many ways and literature mirrors whatever happens in the society. Society Whenever a person reads a piece of literature,

The face of literature has completely changed in the present time. Literature was considered as a broad entity but literature has developed into various branches lately. For example, Dalit literature is literature written by Dalits about their lives. Dalit literature forms an imperative and distinct part of Indian literature. African-American literature is another literature which is produced in the United States by writers of African descent. Not only these two but many kinds of literatures like Australian Literature, African literature, Canadian literature, Caribbean literature, Comparative literature etc., have achieved their place in the list of famous literature in the world. People have gained knowledge and have attained a responsibility on producing literature that talks about their own country, language, its culture, its customs, its beliefs and above all that, about its history and roots. Among all these literature, the one literature that has made an immense effort to gain its prominence is Canadian literature. This literature has worked so hard to influence the society as well as the world and also to make the country proud. Canadian writers are very talented and have the passion for writing and have been constantly functioning firmly to make a change in the world through their

Canadian literature is lively and skillful just like the other literature such as British literature, American literature, and Indian English literature. The totality of Canadian literature can only be grasped by knowing the history of the country itself. Canadian history begins with the inhabitance of Aboriginal peoples for thousands of years. Writers have depicted Canada in several ways. They are as French colony, English colony, A Pacific Rim country, An Arctic giant, A friendly territory, An uninhabitable wilderness, or A fifty-first state. Canada is a country that elongates 3,000 miles from east to west and also sometimes expanding almost 3,000 miles from north to south. Most of its northern lands are unsettled and uninhabitable. In area, it is the second largest country in the world, with the population more or less half that of the United Kingdom. The present Canada was not developed with the single entity alone; rather it shows its evolvement through the group of French and British colonies into a bilingual, multicultural Federation. In the 17th century, the land was colonized by the French settlers and was subjugated by the Great Britain in 1763. Only in 1867, the present Canada got a chance to step forward. Even though Canadian literature enjoys a global approval at present, the growth was not a simple and immediate one, it developed slowly and steadily. It may have started in the 17th century but