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Projection of Women’s Voice in Tribal Folklore: Metamorphosis of
the Daughters of Nature From Invisibles To Individuals

Rajesh Paul, M.A. in English, B.Ed. 4th semester

Abstract

The sole intention of this present paper is to provide a comprehensive picture of women, by extracting references both from folklores and real life practices. The researcher has made an effort to anatomize and vindicate the location of the daughters of Nature and give them, who are even now termed as "subaltern", a voiceless marginalized class of society, an inaudible voice. Folklore, a part of oral literature that get written down by the scholars, flags the voice of patriarchy. In fact it will be no exaggeration to profess that the history of folklore has been the history of women subjugation and that has very meticulously clipped the wings of women. Those women of folklores, who have become the alter-ego of many modern women, had very little to say and were under the constant observation of either a patriarch or a flag bearer of patriarch, some of them died at the end of the story while others became successful to attain their long desired freedom though it didn't come without a cost.

Though the presence of patriarchy is paramount in folklores but what can bring some light in the grey canvas of folk literature is the fact that the tribal folklores especially the folklores of Northeast are way more superior than the folklores of other parts of the globe. In the folklores of Britain only men have sayings and women by virtue of being subordinate to men are left out with no words. Those unheard oral stories of Tripura have captured a vast range of social issues. Some stories have given women a voice while others have successfully been able to curtail their words. In some stories harm emerges from a womanizer and in other stories one woman has turned against another.

This paper will try to provide answers to these important questions -

A. What is Folklore?
B. What does folklore teach?
C. Do all folklores have subjugated women?
D. Do women have a voice in today's world?

Keywords: Folklores, Tripura, Patriarchy, Invisibles, Individuals, Androgynous mind.

1. Introduction

Before taking a deep dive into the galvanizing world of folklore it would be no waste of time if one takes to explore and understand the very term ‘folklore'. The Dictionary meaning of 'Folk’ is 'people' and 'lore' stands for 'story', thus folklore means the stories of a particular race or a community that get transmitted through words. The anecdotes of those kings, queens and simple rustic people were carried from mouth to mouth through several generations and survived by that tradition only.

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Rajesh Paul, M.A. in English, B.Ed. 4th semester
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