LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 11 : 12 December 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Treatment of the Marginalized in Select Novels in Indian Writing in English

N. Sowmia Kumar, M.A., M.Phil.

Marginalization and Literature

Literature represents life and life is a social reality. A writer, who is a member of a society, is possessed of specific social status and he receives some degree of social recognition and reward. De Bonald considers ‘literature is an expression of society’ (95).

In every society, there are some sections of people deprived of socio-economic opportunities for their sustenance and they are victims of social, cultural, and political exclusion. They are the marginalized and the marginalized communities are the rural poor, the downtrodden, and those who belong to the scheduled castes.

Mullay describes marginalization as

‘the need for recognizing that social problems are indeed connected with larger structures in society, causing various forms of oppression amongst individuals resulting in marginalization’ (262).

Projection of Indian Image

One of the important objectives of Indian English writers of fiction has been the creative interpretation of Indian society and its culture and the ‘formulation and projection of the Indian image’ (Shahane 11). The Indian society is broadly classified into three main communities, namely, the upper-caste, the non-upper-caste and the depressed classes. Among them, there existed many castes and sub-castes, which followed numerous practices and usages; surprisingly each of them is unique. The influence of upper-castes is greatly felt in the socio-religious and cultural lives of the marginalized sections over the years.

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N. Sowmia Kumar, M.A., M.Phil.
Assistant Professor of English
Mookambigai College of Engineering
Srinivasa Nagar
Kalamavur 622 502
Tamilnadu, India
sowmia2kumar@rediffmail.com
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