Abin Chakraborty West Bengal, India. The attempts to imagine the Indian nation as a united political community are repeatedly ruptured by what Pramod Nayyar calls the processes of ‘postcolonial subalternization’ which refers to all those forces of oppression that continue to ravage India on the basis of class, caste, gender, creed and of course religion….
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Representing the Postcolonial Subaltern: A study of Arvind Adiga’s The White Tiger.
Ram Bhawan Yadav The politic of literary representation is supposed to be deliberate and complex in its nature and approach. The motivation, intent and agenda that direct such endeavor often result in domain of conflict, which leads to the crisis of literary, social and political representation. As Simon Featherstone points out, “In postcolonialism it [the…
Postcolonial Subalternization in the Plays of Girish Karnad
Dr. Krishna Singh Associate Professor of English, Govt. P.G. College Shahdol M.P. (India) In the postcolonial theory subaltern studies occupy significant place; it derives its force from Marxism and Post-Structuralism. Subaltern studies is primarily concerned with socio- cultural and historical aspects of the society incorporating the entire people that is subordinate in terms of class,…