The Invisible Presence of OBC: A Literary Voice

Amar Wayal

Abstract


This paper analyzes the writing on OBC literature to contribute, presumably in a bit of way, toward opening up a dialogue among them regarding what constitutes meaningful literary efforts and selecting OBC literature because OBC has not much mattered yet, not in the aura of postcolonial, cultural, and subaltern studies. In order to initiate a dialogue about the underside
of the literary world, the term OBC literature appears as one of the mechanisms for producing social, political, and educational consciousness in society. The existence of this consciousness, shaped by the backward commissions, is easily understood for the constitutional facts of pre and
post-independence societies. To investigate the conditions of socially and educationally backward classes and the difficulties in which they labour for years, the variants of Other Backward Classes from history remain the same in order to establish a favourable literary voice for their marginalization and oppression.


Keywords


Literary Voice, Other Backward Classes, Presence of Identity, Marginal Deprivation, Thoughts, Philosophies

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijclts.v.9n.2p.32

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