Subaltern Essays

Introduction Postcolonial writings have invoked the notion of social Justice, resistance. Freedom and egalitarianism in its attempt to counter dictatorial structures of racial discrimination, prejudice and ill treatment. Subaltern studies ‘occupied a prominent place in post colonial writings. The land owners, the industrialists and the upper classes have always dominated and oppressed the poor, servants and other unprivileged class. Their voices have been silenced and are subjected to exploitation

“Battle Royal,” the protagonists unsuccessfully attempt to separate from the limitations of their subaltern status, re-emphasizing their lack of social power in their respective communities. Chesnutt and Ellison’s incorporation of the subaltern and its relation to blacks accurately reflect the fractured state of the entire nation during the Jim Crow Era. Both narratives discuss the theme of the subaltern—any group or unable to influence the established power structure in society—and connect it to the

Kathryn Stockett's novel The Help introduces a complicated process of one's recognition of authenticity and voice in society. A young woman from Europid ancestry, Euginia “Skeeter” Phelan, starts an endeavour to reflect Jackson's life through the eyes of African American maids working there. To highlight this experience, Stockett uses the characters of Aibileen and Minny to highlight this experience both for Skeeter’s book as well as the reader of The Help. As they live in one of the most segregated

This practice of “writing back” is also demonstrated in the humor and laughter in the novel, though as will be discussed later, the effect of the laughter is questionable. In post-colonial writings, the function of humor and laughter is largely associated with its liberating and subversive effects released from the colonized as opposed to the dominance and hegemony of the colonizers. Among the theories of humor, Bakhtin’s concept of carnivalisque laughter is often appropriated by critiques of post-colonial

to the social structure that inherently classify people into different groups. No doubt, without the invasion of the colonists, African culture will not start falling apart. However, this essay is going to argue that in Chinua Achebe’s novel, the subaltern problems of the native colonized play a more important role than the external factors in the collapse of Igbo culture. The coming of the colonists starts rolling the wheel of culture’s destruction, but the causes inside African culture in novel

Metaphor and metonymy could build a strong imagery of alienation in films The study revealed that TV Chandran has used a wide array of metonymy and metaphors in all the films selected for the study to image the concept of alienation. Metaphor is so widespread that it is often used as an 'umbrella ' term to include other figures of speech like metonyms which can be technically distinguished from it in its narrower usage. Lakoff and Johnson argue that 'the essence of metaphor is understanding and

GAIN’S THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE PITTMAN – ODYSSEY OF A RACE Dr. T. Sasikanth Reddy (Lecturer in English, S.C.N.R Govt. Degree College,Proddatur Town, YSR Dist, A.P. India, 516360.) Email: drtskreddy@gmail.com ABSTRACT The novel as a genre offers great freedom both in terms of narration and space for the creative writer, not only to perfect his art but also to capture a particular movement in history and to recreate it imaginatively. Ernest J. Gaines’ novel The Autobiography

story that shows the world that any person, no matter the age, gender or race has the potential to be a hero. Her identity was and is shaped and framed by the people, cultural context and events in her life. She exemplifies for the world that a subaltern can

the third World are not able to voice or express their problematicstate to the world around them. In her essay Can the Subaltern Speak?Spivakdiscourses these difficultaccurately. Through this novel, Ali tries to give voice to this subaltern woman and to draw attention to her life and difficult situations. According to Spivak, the subaltern cannot tell means even when the subaltern makes an effort to speak, she cannot not be

genres of music are up for interpretation by the listener, hip-hop is no exception to the rule. At its root, hip-hop, or rap music, is the voice of the subaltern, a voice for people that were actively living in urban poverty and felt that their voices were not being heard by greater society. Today’s hip-hop goes beyond the voices of the subaltern and has expanded into the wide abyss of consumerism and mainstream media. Hip-hop is no longer just a subculture, it is a sensation. While the socially

Escober attempts to aid the crises in developmental discourse, through two perspectives: the inability to critical thought, and to imagine a new domain which leaves behind the imaginary of development which continually dependent on western modernity and historicity, and secondly the emergence of a powerful social movement discourse. Additionally, Escober notes that the “ product of critical thought should be a history of our present, of those discourses and practices which have made us what we are

Culture consists of manners, tradition, language, ideology, values and artistic expression. External and internal aspects of culture are included in it. External form of culture organized on the basis of internal ideologies. Only one change occurred in our culture, which was the result of British imperialism in the form of social, economical and political structure. This change was the important phase of our historical development. Faiz talks about both negative as well as positive side of the imperialism

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a Colombian writer, writing in Spanish and is famous for his Noble-prize winning novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. Popularly known as ‘Gabo’, Marquez has made a distinction by popularizing one literary genre known which is Magic Realism. Love in the Time of Cholera was first published in 1985 in Spanish and later on in 1988 it was being translated in English by Edith. It narrates the story of Florentino Ariza who is obsessed with two things – Love and Sex. Florentino

Religious Discourse", my vocabulary and understanding of feminist-religious phrases indefinitely extended and increased. The most stimulating and thought provoking terms from this work (in the order introduced) are: colonialist feminism, female subaltern, veneration, phallocentric, and eschatological. This text essentially discovers, "...How saving brown women functions as a colonial ideology helping to camouflage the violence and brutality of colonialism by sugar coating it as a for of social

RALPH ELLISON’S INVISIBLE MAN: A CULTURAL RESISTANCE Amrutha T V Guest Faculty Sreekrishna College, Guruvayur ABSTRACT: African-American writers of fiction have always been pre occupied with racial themes and cultural legacies. This is due to their history of enslavement and colonization. The variety of races thrown together has created a melting-pot and the writers often tend to focus on racial prejudice and colour hierarchies. They have been subject to some of the worst fonts of physical, political

Baltimore in a tumultuous state. This form of media manipulation alludes to Antonio Gramsci’s History of the Subaltern Classes, when he writes, “[The] attempts to influence the programmes of these formations in order to press claims of their own–conserve the assent of the subaltern groups and to maintain control over them”. Upper-class citizens hold almost all control over the “subaltern” class that resides in inner city Baltimore, and nothing is done to help them, which perpetuates a cycle of violence

The disgruntlement has given rise to the spread of Maoism and the absence of the rule of the law in the hinterlands of India, but Balram steers clear of ideological warfare. All that Balram wants to accomplish is to liberate himself from the ranks of the poor majority and team up with the rich minority, though he strongly despises them for keeping underdogs like him poor forever. He wants to murder the rich and pleads for help in accomplishing it: “. . . if there is blood on these streets . . . do

protagonist. The short stories are translated by individual translators and render universality to the socio-cultural life of the marginalized productive communities of Telangana region. Each of these stories contributes to the aesthetics of the subaltern writing and the author’s journey of self- discovery is refurbishing of a world and a community that has experienced agony, apathy, oppression and exploitation for thousands of years. The characters have an organic connection with the family, community

it nevertheless offers possibility for subaltern masses to be visible within its networks. The network society, then, would seem to offer less masculine domination than the earlier moment of imperialism, an idea Gibson reinforces by dissolving the globalized manager Armitage. And yet managerial power does not dissipate with Armitage; the hacker Case, seemingly an outsider to power, emerges as a kind of manager by the novel's end. Similarly, the subaltern subjects who seemed to gain power throughout

As the famous saying goes, “The strong do what they will while the weak do what they must," so let it be with the counties of the world and the role they play in International Politics. Eurocentrism is a concept that places Europe at the centre of the world. Assuming that it is self containing and self representing, the entire world is looked at with Europe at the centre. Eurocentrism bias leads to an illogical understanding of International Relations and makes politics and judgement to incline in