LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 17:3 March 2017
ISSN 1930-2940

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Voice of the Rejected: Representation of the Life of Transgender in
the Poems of Kalki

S. Ramanathan, M.A., (Eng.), M.A. (Ling.), M.Phil., B.Ed. PGDDE


Codes and Laws and Oppression

The world is fragmented by the dominant cultured people and by the establishment of the of oppression and exploitation. Subalternity is the term which tends to signify the oppressed and suppressed in every society. Every society is guarded by its codes and laws, which are considered more ethical, and the rejection of which is considered as a curse fell upon the particular society. These codes also form the crux of social ethos. Maintaining the order enunciated in the codes and maintaining some groups of people as subalterns and exploiting them deliberately especially for some ignoble purposes and fulfilling their needs become social ethos in Indian society. The subaltern identities are imposed upon such people in terms of race, religion, caste, gender and so on. Transgenders are one among them.

Everybody is marked with a gender on birth itself, Transgender is a term used to denote the person whose gender identity differs from the one marked. Gender identity of a person is internal, personal sense of being a man or woman. For transgender the gender marked at birth may not match with their internal gender identity. Transgenders are variously defined themselves in the modern era as transgender, transsexual, or genderqueer. Transgenders are born with male or female anatomy but have the feeling that they have been born into a wrong body. Trying to change the gender identity may not be successful than trying to change the sexual orientation and consequently transgenders align their bodies with relation to their gender identity.

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S. Ramanathan, M.A. (Eng.), M.A. (Ling.), M.Phil., B.Ed., PGDDE
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India
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