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REPRESENTATION OF SUBALTERN VOICES IN CONTEMPORARY INDIAN TRIBAL LITERATURE: A STUDY

SAYAR SINGH CHOPRA

Vol 17, No 06 ( 2022 )   |  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6731556   |   Author Affiliation: Research Scholar, University of Delhi, Delhi, India   |   Licensing: CC 4.0   |   Pg no: 1311-1320   |   To cite: SAYAR SINGH CHOPRA. (2022). REPRESENTATION OF SUBALTERN VOICES IN CONTEMPORARY INDIAN TRIBAL LITERATURE: A STUDY. 17(06), 1311–1320. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6731556   |   Published on: 25-06-2022

Abstract

The main thematic concern of the present research paper is to discuss the conditions of contemporary tribal people in our society through select literary fiction. Subaltern is ‘of an inferior rank’, refers to those groups in society who are subject to the hegemony of the ruling class. The word subaltern specially denotes the lower classes, oppressed people at the margins of a society and social group who are struggling against hegemonic globalization. The voice of subaltern, a by-product of social, economic, religious conditions of historical Indian society, attempts to expose the experience of discrimination, poverty and human rights violation of lower class in contemporary India. Subaltern writers’ prime concern is to raise voice against the injustice and inequality in social and economic domain. Gayatri C. Spivak says in her article “Can the subaltern speak”, the subaltern has no history and they cannot speak out, subaltern as female is even more deeply in shadow. In this research paper deals with the dynamics of gender discrimination in contemporary Indian tribal society. Our country is rich with a diversity of religions, arts, customs, races, traditions, and languages. On the other side Indian tribal literature is a document of life experiences of the marginal section. It is also a medium of expression of experiences that has been faced throughout the life in the form of excommunication, marginalization, exploitation and humiliation for centuries in the Indian caste and class-ridden society. These experiences are expressed in the contemporary Indian tribal literary fiction. Gopinath Mohanty’s Paraja, Mahaswtea Devi’s Dust on the Road, Mamang Dai’s The Black Hill, and Hari Ram Meena’s When Arrows Were Heated Up are select for this research paper.


Keywords

Tribes, Subaltern, Gender, Gopinath Mohanty’s Paraja, Mahaswtea Devi’s Dust on the Road, Mamang Dai’s The Black Hill and Hari Ram Meena’s When Arrows Were Heated Up.