On Page and on Stage: Celebrating Dalit and Adivasi Literatures and Performing Arts

“写作、翻译、分析达利特文学”网络由英国诺丁汉特伦特大学（NTU）后殖民研究中心的Nicole Thiara博士和法国蒙彼利埃第三大学（UPVM）EMMA研究中心的Judith Misrahi-Barak博士在获得澳大利亚人权委员会赠款后于2014年创建。在2014-16赠款期间进行的研究探索和分析了达利特文学在国际，多学科背景下的第一次，因为达利特文学，由以前标记为“贱民”的艺术家制作，成为印度最重要的，多产的和有争议的文学运动在过去30年。尽管这一新兴文学传统的质量、活力和实验性质，但它很少受到公众或学术界的关注。为了提高其在欧洲和全球的知名度，并激发学术研究和公众兴趣，Thiara和Misrahi-Barak在英国（诺丁汉特伦特大学，莱斯特大学，东安格利亚大学），法国（UPVM）和印度（Savitribai Pune大学和德里大学）组织了六次学术和公众活动。这些活动取得了巨大成功（共有450人参加），该网络建立了一个网站、一个数字通信频道和几份出版物，后续资金将用于在印度、法国和英国组织一系列以达利特人和阿迪瓦西人文学和表演艺术为重点的节日活动。在网络资助期间，很明显，需要进一步合作，以确保社会不稳定，经济困难和文化边缘化的艺术家的工作在国家和全球范围内都是可见的和有价值的。研究发现，戏剧和诗歌是最边缘化的体裁之一，受到学者的关注最少，尽管这些体裁在达利特人和阿迪瓦西人活动家圈子中是最重要的，在表达对持续的种姓歧视和社会排斥的抵制方面也是最突出的。更重要的是，我们深入了解了达利特人和阿迪瓦西人作家和表演艺术家的普遍看法，即他们的文学和艺术作品需要更多和更多样化的观众，以维持其创造性和实验性的发展。达利特人和阿迪瓦西人的民间艺术形式如果得不到泛印度达利特人和阿迪瓦西人观众以及文化和国家组织的更多支持，并得到新的“主流”观众和国际认可的支持和丰富，就有消失的危险。

The Network 'Writing, Translating, Analysing Dalit Literature' was created in 2014 by Dr Nicole Thiara, Centre for Postcolonial Studies at Nottingham Trent University (NTU), UK, and Dr Judith Misrahi-Barak, research centre EMMA at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 (UPVM), France, following the award of an AHRC grant. The research conducted during the 2014-16 grant period explored and analysed Dalit literature in international, multi-disciplinary contexts for the first time since Dalit literature, produced by artists formerly labelled 'Untouchables', emerged as the most significant, prolific and controversial literary movement in India in the last 30 years. Despite the quality, vibrancy and experimental nature of this burgeoning literary tradition, it had received scant attention from the general public or in academia. To raise its profile, in Europe and globally, and to stimulate academic research and public interest, Thiara and Misrahi-Barak organised six academic and public-facing events in the UK (at Nottingham Trent University, University of Leicester, University of East Anglia), France (at UPVM) and India (at Savitribai Phule Pune University and Delhi University). They were a resounding success (450 participants in total) and the network produced a website, a digital communications channel and several publications.Follow-on funding will allow a series of festival events to be organised that focus on Dalit and Adivasi literatures and the performing arts in India, France and the UK. During the period of network funding, it became apparent that further collaboration is needed to ensure that work by socially precarious, economically challenged, and culturally marginalized artists becomes visible and is valued in both national and global contexts. It emerged that drama and poetry were among the most marginalised of genres, and received the least attention from scholars, even though these genres are among the most significant in Dalit and Adivasi activist circles and the most prominent in voicing resistance to continued caste discrimination and social exclusion. Even more significant was the insight we gained into the widespread perception amongst Dalit and Adivasi writers and performing artists that their literary and artistic output requires larger and more varied audiences in order to sustain its creative and experimental development. Dalit and Adivasi folk art forms are in danger of disappearing if they do not receive more support from a pan-Indian Dalit and Adivasi audience, and from cultural and state organisations, and can be both supported and enriched by new 'mainstream' audiences and international recognition.