Pub. Date | : Sep, 2022 |
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Product Name | : The IUP Journal of English Studies |
Product Type | : Article |
Product Code | : IJES090922 |
Author Name | : Joe Philip, Renu Bhadola Dangwal and Vinod Balakrishnan |
Availability | : YES |
Subject/Domain | : Arts & Humanities |
Download Format | : PDF Format |
No. of Pages | : 14 |
Mahasweta Devi's narratives epitomize 'subaltern resistance', a term which has received less attention and much notoriety in postcolonial studies. Devi's narratives negotiate subaltern lived experiences and subaltern resistance in the language of human rights. It is through these acts and responses that the term 'human' and its various significations are realized in her stories. The present paper deals with Devi's deconstruction of social hegemonic constructs, which helps to engage the problematics and ambiguities associated with subaltern resistance. Her stories become a commentary on the unmaking of subaltern lives vis-a-vis human rights and politics of domination. The paper draws its inferences from Devi's Imaginary Maps (2001), Breast Stories (2010), as well as from human rights discourse, so as to highlight the 'wrongs' the dispossessed tribals 'right' for themselves and the way they achieve it. These narratives describe subaltern resistance as an active dialectic process, through which the subjected forces are motivated to attain rights and sociopolitical positioning. Moreover, these narratives are significant texts not only as resistance and human rights discourse but also for their role in obliterating the spaces that perpetuate subalternity.