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Crumbled Voices of Marginalized Women in Mahasweta Devi’s Giribala

Dr. V. Gnanaprakasam

Abstract

This paper examines Mahasweta Devi’s short-story Giribala in order to demonstrate the paradoxical condition and representation of women in society as well as their crumbled voices. It also looks at their endurance and resistance. Women’s positions in society, specifically those of marginalized ones positions are very much obsessed with the sense of negligence and docility. Marginalized women, the tribe or the poor women and the outcast or the rebellious women, do not acquire any respectable position and identity in society. Their agonies have long been neglected, and are not even regarded as erroneous but the usual happenings of day-to-day life. Every woman does not belong to the upper class or challenge the fate of misery or not, every single woman has the same tragedy to sustain but most of them have resemblances. They have similar experiences, impervious pronunciation and different situations. Devi’s stories address this unspoken reality and truth of women’s pain and their power of enduring and resistance.

Keywords: Mahasweta Devi, Giribala, Marginalized, Identity, Women, Resistance, Negligence, Endurance, Crumbled Voices

Mahasweta Devi and Marginalized Women

From British imperialism to post-independent India, social activist and Bengali writer Mahasweta Devi has perceived the years of political twists and changes that have ended up in India’s crucial vicinity in the global arena. Inspiring young and old with her strong attitude in the support of the tribes of India, she is a resolute supporter for the socio-economic protection, security, and political welfare of tribes. Devi, as a political anthropologist for her profound ethnographic insight, takes up an ethnographic realism in her writing and a social conscience that have inspired all stages of her prolific writing career.

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Dr. V. Gnanaprakasam
Assistant Professor of English
Department of English
Annamalai University
Chidambaram
veeravgp@yahoo.co.in

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