Writing the Forbidden

A Study of Three Texts, Three Genres, and Three Communities

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  • Sruti Manjula Devaprakash

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14712/12128112.4144

Klíčová slova:

representation of community, freedom of expression, censorship, subalternity, postcolonial studies

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Three texts have been chosen for this study: Daya Pawar’s life-narrative Baluta, Perumal Murugan’s historical fiction One Part Woman, and Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s short story collection The Adivasi Will Not Dance. These writers hail from various subaltern groups of the Indian subcontinent, with diverse ethnicities. Besides subalternity, a significant thread connecting these texts is that the writers’ respective communities took offence at the portrayal of their cultures. This study explores the self-representation of the community through a close reading of the texts, and theorizes the relationship between the writer, narrator, characters, and the community. The paper analyses how the writer employs the community in the narrative and the role this plays in the respective spatiotemporal contexts of the texts. Given the chosen texts are of different genres – a Dalit life-narrative, a historical novel, and short stories – the paper also explores the genre-ic/form-al differences in the representation/use of the community.

Biografie autora

Sruti Manjula Devaprakash

is presently pursuing PhD in English from the School of Letters, Ambedkar University Delhi. She is exploring literatures depicting rural migrants in the metropolitan Bombay with a focus on the promise/hopes of urban modernity, identity representation and migration literature as a tool resistance. Her broad area of research interest includes migrationliterature, literature and city, and studying social relations in narrative literature.

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Publikováno

2023-09-01

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Manjula Devaprakash, S. (2023). Writing the Forbidden: A Study of Three Texts, Three Genres, and Three Communities. Lidé města, 25(2), 239-256. https://doi.org/10.14712/12128112.4144

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