The Power of Narrative

Authors Press, 2022

The theme of marginalisation in literature has reached a new height in literature throughout the centuries. The common factor of such marginalization arises due to the incapacity of people to fulfil the needs of society. The people who are incapable of serving in valuable socio-economical, political and cultural sectors feel insignificant and alien within society. In a country like India, we have several times come across such marginalization almost everywhere. Irrespective of their cultural roots, the process of marginalization still exists in society. Among the greater marginalized communities of India are schedule castes, schedule tribes, women and children. In this study, my focus will be on exploring the concerns of the minority, low caste marginal, Dalit women as voiced through the poetry of South Indian Tamil writer Meena Kandasamy. An attempt will be made to study contemporary Dalit feminist writings and how Dalit women at large use literature as their weapon of empowerment. On the other hand, the focus will be on Temsula Ao, a major voice of the North East in Indian English Literature. A clear picture of how her poetry interconnects and combines the oppression of Women and nature will be the focus of this discussion.

Economic and Political Weekly, 2022

The epic tale of Phoolan Devi has inspired several studies and artistic works around her life and struggle. This includes her representation in the works of literature, cinema, painting and other genres. They brought complex discourses around the politics of representations and the question of genre and medium itself. None of these studies, however, examines how Mallah, the caste Phoolan Devi belonged or the local subaltern communities want to project Devi in their narrative discourses. Thinking through the epic and ballads on the life of Phoolan Devi, created by her own community in particular and Bahujan community in general, this article reads the representation of Devi as a case of narrative justice. From Devi’s image as a revengeful figure and the Bandit Queen of popular culture, Phoolan Devi has slowly emerged as the queen of justice for the local subaltern communities. Contrary to the sensational approach of popular and the voice to the voiceless approach of the scholarly writings, the epic narratives around Phoolan are more steady and up to the mark to engage with the contemporary discourse of caste, gender and intersectional representation. Though there are many ballad singers and performers who sing the story of Phoolan Devi in birha and alha style, I discuss the alha of Phoolan Devi by Ajay Sahni, a singer from Mallah community. I situate their representations or recounting of Phoolan’s life as part of cultural justice that involves the battle over the relations of representation and “correcting” the discourse of narrative injustices.

Liberal Arts and Social Sciences International Journal (LASSIJ), 2021

Autobiographical memoirs incorporate personal experiences of an individual and the cultural structures for recognizing lives and identities. They mediate between actions and point of view of an author to display the identity of self and others. The language of autobiographical narratives situates characters in relation to one another to distinguish between self and other. This study examines the approach adopted by Malala for her identity construction in her autobiography, explicating the ways she maintains or challenges the social customs through these ideologies. It analyses linguistic features employed by Malala for identity construction and ideological distinctions between the victims and the perpetrators, stigmatized and non-stigmatized in her story. Malala appears in her tales as an author with authority, as well as a victim of intolerance and abuse, according to the findings; however, her identity is often fluid and changing through acquiring the roles of victim, figure, and ...

2019

This practice-based research investigates the effects of the semiotic authority that underlies the symbols and stories of a dominant culture. This research investigates the effects of the everyday mythologised body of ‘reality’ that arguably manifests itself in situations of symbolic abuse (referring to Barthes’ ideological abuse. Barthes, 1957: 10), and explores the abusive nature of that which resides in what-goes-without-saying (Barthes, 1957: 10). The project investigates the more commonplace manifestations of semiotic authority such as mundane behavioural protocols, societal norms and stereotypes. It considers the effects of these on the agency of members of society. This study offers the hypothesis: If the social phenomenon of symbolic abuse manifests itself within quotidian life through the environment of the semiotic authority of narrative form, then the input of both the artist and the viewer can augment the agency of marginalised members of society by developing an epistem...

Social Science, Humanities and Sustainability Research

The importance of education for a woman is to gain equality and avoid harassment, but rather to establish political power, although she must fight the authority and Taliban’s challenges. Education is the obligation and the right of human beings, even though there was the most vital challenge to fight.Through descriptive-analytical study and sociological approach, I portray Malala’s fighting for women’s education in her country. Then to find out and describe the elements of a sociology of literature because it focuses on human problems in the community.The results showed that education in this society, mainly among women, is often confined to the household and only minimally participates in the public domain and is vulnerable to violence, exploitation, and abuse during crises.The finding indicated that the role of women in this society and the oppression of women still exist. So, all the treatments and oppression against women identify by analyzing her famous work.

2021

ENGLISH: In this study, the researcher focused on the oppression and resistance experienced by Malala Yousafzai as the main character. She is a young Pakistan girl who has big courage and takes action against men's domination. The patriarchal system that grows in society places women in the second class after men. This study aims to find the kinds of oppression and form of resistance experienced by the main character in the I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai. In analyzing this literary work, the researcher uses a liberal feminist perspective with the theory of oppression and resistance. The main data are taken from the I am Malala’s novel (2013). Feminist literary criticism is also applied to interpret and analyze literary work. The researcher makes two research problems. : (1) What kinds of oppression was experienced by Malala in I am Malala? (2) How does the main character resist the oppression in I am Malala?. The result of this study discovered five kinds of oppression and two ...

SAGE Open, 2014

This article studies three short stories by Muhammad Ali Saeid (1950-), a writer and critic who lives in Tamrah, the Western Galilee. These stories are "The Delivery" (Al Wilādah), "Ḥayāt" (life), and "Devouring" (Iftirās), which appeared in Assadi's Father and Son: Selected Short Fiction by Hanna Ibrahim Elias and Mohammad Ali Saeid. It examines the use of the artistic devices used in the selected short stories to highlight "female oppression" as well as the linkage between feminism and postcolonialism, in case of Palestine. Above all, this article confirms that the profound perceptions of Saeid are reflected in his success to control his narrative techniques so artistically that he offers new arenas for academic assessments and analysis. Saeid's observations also brighten new terrains, where divergent powers can band tunefully to battle subjugation, prejudice, and occupation. , critic, translator and writer, is a senior lecturer (A) at the College of Sakhnin for Teacher Education.

2014

The present article deals with the book “I am Malala”. The certain extracts are selected to unveil the explicit and implicit voices which are louder than Malala’s own voice. For this study Fairclough’s three dimensional theoretical framework of CDA is chosen. Through qualitative data analysis other voices are unveiled and it is also revealed that how interdiscursive events represent half reality or one side of the picture. This study proves that through voices and interdiscursive events, the boundary of education and peace is blurred. Other discourses as history, culture terrorism, politics, poverty, feminism, and marginalization are popping up more than education.