The present research paper is a humble attempt to explore the themes and concerns of the two activist writers- Mahasweta Devi, a Bengali writer whose works are translated in English and Arundhati Roy in their works of fiction and non-fiction. As they have always felt that the documentation of exploitation of the suppressed class is one of the ways to rebel against the exploiting sections of the society. Wherefore this study is intended to throw light on their valuable and practically helpful contribution to Indian Literature and society as well. Introduction: Mahasweta Devi and Arundhati Roy are the well-known Indian women writers of post-colonial era. They are not only the fiction writers but also development critics as well as activist writers. They have represented the marginalized section of the society in their …show more content…
She was born into a literary family. After finishing a master’s degree in English literature from Calcutta University, she began working as a teacher and journalist. She started writing from an early age for various literary magazines. She has to her credit over 20 collections of short stories and over a 100 novels primarily in her native language, Bengali. She was influenced by the Naxalite movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. One of the major themes of works of Mahasweta Devi involves position of tribal communities within India. She has been working her heart and soul since a very long time for the political, social and economic development and advancement of these communities. She has been a regular contributor to several literary magazines as ‘Bortika’ dedicated to the cause of oppressed communities in India. In 1984, she got retired from her job as an English lecturer at Calcutta University only to concentrate more on her writing and to dedicate herself more towards the upliftment of these tribal
Nagaina, a character in the story “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” by Rudya Kipling, is an vicious cobra that wants everything for herself. She never listens to anyone and carelessly does anything she wants no matter what happens to the people around her. Nagaina would cause harm to anyone at any good time just for her enjoyment. She is very imperious, strong, and irresponsible for everything. Nagaina is very imperious and likes taking control of all of the plans
Sacagawea is a native american women in history she was a daughter of a chief is was born somewhere in circa around the 1780’s around the age of 12 she was captured by a different tribe + sold to the french. A few years later she was forced to be his wife.she went on the lewis and clark expedition and as she was living she died in south Dakota, 1800’s. The lewis and clark expedition
Born the daughter of her proud Shoshone chief in Idaho Sacagawea is her name meaning bird women when I turned twelve was when everything I knew and loved was taken away from me. The Hidatsa Indians killed all the men, women and boys at our tribe. Only young women like Sacagawea and her friend Naya Nuki, as they went to their village in North Dakota we worked as their slaves. In Great Falls, Montana I bought a condo there several years ago… the Lewis and Clark expedition learned for a route through the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. Sacagawea was the women who led the two men.
Sudipta Bardhan and Diana Childress are both authors of two stories. One named “A Life Painting Animals” and the other being “The Osage Firebird”. Both talk about a person’s life and their ways to overcome difficult obstacles. One however did the best to describe the person’s ways on overcoming them. That was “A Life Painting Animals” by Diana Childress; it showed what she did to overcome her many obstacles to be successful.
Ohiyesa’s The Soul of the Indian gives a nostalgic critique on the encroachment of white civilization on the Native American culture, citing the parallelisms the two societies share and explaining the reasoning behind Native American rituals. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass gives a glimpse into the life of a slave, comparing the life of the free and the enslaved, and giving reason to the actions of the slave and slave master. Throughout each book, it becomes apparent that each has a common trait: the white population’s use of religion as a means for their cruelty. To clarify, religion is used as a justification for their respective instances of oppression, both the purge of Native Americans and Native American culture for Ohiyesa, and slavery for Douglass. Although they experience different systems of oppression, Douglass and Ohiyesa see how the corruption of religion can be used by the white majority to assert themselves as masters to their respective peoples.
She has received early schooling up to age of eleven year in her home because her grandmother and her aunts at that time didn’t believed in traditional educational system. She went to public school at the age of eleven year; due to her home based schooling she was lacking social interaction or relationships. So, she used to spent her most of the time in reading literatures. She graduated from high school at the age of sixteen years and moved to New York with one the aunt. There she got a job in publishing house; the role she performed was clerk and mechanical tasks.
Sacajawea was a strong and courageous woman who made a difference in American History. Her knowledge of the land and people around her became incredibly useful to the foreign explorers. Sacajawea was a young, Indian woman who helped lead the Corps of Discovery across the Louisiana territory. Her Help enabled the United States to expand its territory.
The three gems discussed in chapter 2 are Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha. If the goal is to bring meaning to these terms that were previously meaningless to someone on the street, it is essential that you introduce them in a way that one can relate to. I accomplish this through presenting situations that occur everyday. Buddha is referred to as the awakened one. A Buddha is a person who wakes up and understands, someone who is enlightened.
Imagine being sold into sex slavery by one of the most important people in your life…your father. Well this is what happened to Lakshmi in the book Sold by Patricia McCormick. Lakshmi, a 12 year old girl, lives in a village in Nepal. She lives with her goat, baby brother, mother, and stepfather. Lakshmi despises her stepfather because he does not have a job and he spends all the money that her mother earns on useless materials.
In the short story Longing to Belong written by Saira Shah she explains to us that she has never really felt like part of her culture. Growing up in Britain she was never really exposed to her family’s culture, which was Afghan. She felt that in order to fit in she must allow her family to arrange a marriage for her. After sitting through her cousins wedding she realized that she was not ready to be married at her age let alone the marriage be arranged by people she did not know very well. She noticed that while the groom was allowed to laugh and converse with others, the bride was to sit in silence.
Government Arts College for Women, Thanjavur. Abstract: Identity crisis or search of identity has received an impetus in the Post-Colonial literature. Man is known as a social animal which needs some home, love of parents and friends and relatives. But when he is unhoused, he loses the sense of belongingness and thus suffers from a sense of insecurity or identity crisis. In the field of Indian English Literature, feminist or woman centered approach is the major development that deals with the experience and situation of women from the feminist consciousness.
Giovanni Boccaccio sets The Decameron in a time period when women are regarded as holding lower social position than men in a community. In the Biblical text, the roles of women are almost always severely restricted. Women are not allowed to hold power or have a significant position in a society, but to maintain in the positions of wives and mothers, who only care about family. In The Decameron, Boccaccio reveals that women could hold an upper hand role in the relationship of male and female. Boccaccio exceeds the role of women, contrary to church teaching by depicting women as patient, more lustful, and more intelligent figures than men.
Kate Chopin’s The Awakening is a piece of fiction written in the nineteenth century. The protagonist Edna is a controversial character, Edna rebels against many nineteenth - century traditions, but her close friend Adele was a perfect example in terms of a role of a woman, mother and wife at that time. Chopin uses contrast characters to highlight the difference between Adele and Edna. Although they are both married women in the nineteenth century, they also exhibit many different views about what a mother role should be.
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This thesis consists of Hanif’s portrait of women and their marginalized positions in the society and economic, social and religious pride and prejudices towards women in Pakistani society which is an important theme of his novels. He belongs to those who are proof of that some people can tell the truth more comprehensively and authentically with fiction than facts. In his second novel Our Lady of Alice Bhatti (2012), he discusses the battle and determination of a woman fitting in with minority goes out in a patriarchal society and endures accordingly. In a male dominated society women in Pakistan are in lower position than men , they are always on the periphery, and are subordinated to men and are in debased positions both within the house and outside the house. Alam (2011) shows by her study that women’s unequal positions contrasted with men make them weaker both out in the open and private circles.