Published 2022-08-12
Keywords
- Grassroots Social Women,
- Caste,
- Tamil Literature,
- Andal Priyadarshini
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Abstract
Singing songs about God, the king, and upper castes are mostly found in Tamil literature. The singing of working class people is rarely found in a few pieces of literature like Pallu (Agriculture Songs) and Kuravanchi. Modern literature gives complete freedom to sing about the working class. In it, Andal Priyadarshini has created modern literature such as poetry, short stories, novels, etc. In it, the creators have made the lower class people aware of their life status by singing and creating characters. Her works frequently depict hustlers, roadside dwellers, scavengers, cremators, and transgender women and girls. They are the members of society. Some are working people, who have every right to live here, and are economically backward. People have continued their lives at the bottom of society for centuries. Mere pity for the working class will not lift them up. If individual value, castelessness, labour value, and non-discrimination come together, then a society called the working class will disappear.
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References
- Andal Priyadarshini, (2013) Kadavulin Kadaisi Naal, Kumaran Pathippagam, Chennai, India.
- Andal Priyadarshini, (2006) Manmadha Enthiram, Kumaran Pathippagam, Chennai, India.
- Andal Priyadarshini, (2009) Andal Priyadarshini Sirukathaigal, Yegam Pathippagam, Chennai, India.
- Andal Priyadarshini, (2010) Innoru Naan, Kumaran Pathippagam, Chennai, India.
- Sivasubramanian, A., (2002) Adithala Makkal Varalaru, Makkal Veliyeedu, Chennai, India.