Resistance Literatures

The article traces the Telangana Movement in the backdrop of its unique history, culture and ethos, and the many voices of protest and reclamation in poetry that articulated the struggle  of millions of people against hegemony. First published as 'Introduction' to the book, "Ode to Frontline Formations" in 2013, one year prior to the formation of Telangana State, it was subsequently published in "Kakatiya Journal of English Studies" in 2014.

As many of Mahasweta Devi's  activist writings reveal with documentary realism, one wonders whether fact is stranger than fiction. In fact, the situation in these parts of the country is so inhumanly bizarre that Mahasweta has to invent new narrative techniques.  Out of the four stories included in Outcast, the first story, “Dhouli” is taken up here for a closer examination of the narrative strategies Mahasweta employed in depicting her fictional concerns.

Akhtar Mohi-ud-Din, a Kashmiri writer writes about the people who are economically deprived and politically marginalised. What is significant about Mohi-ud-Din’s body of work is that it does not simply reveal the socioeconomic conditions of the deprived population but it also offers an insight into the very evolution of this society and, the gradual but inevitable rise of consciousness among the people, challenging and puncturing the status quo. Akhtar Mohi-ud-Din’s work reveals a society where hegemony is maintained by coercion coupled with consensus. The consensus is not earned once for all. People resist and challenge the hegemony continuously and therefore liberty does not become a state of being rather it is an incessant act, a becoming. The paper is an analysis of his short fiction to show how liberty becomes a continuous exercise of protest rather than a state of being, and how the hegemonic power structures are demolished and re-established. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Eng...

Akhtar Mohi-ud-Din, a Kashmiri writer writes about the people who are economically deprived and politically marginalised. What is significant about Mohi-ud-Din's body of work is that it does not simply reveal the socioeconomic conditions of the deprived population but it also offers an insight into the very evolution of this society and, the gradual but inevitable rise of consciousness among the people, challenging and puncturing the status quo. Akhtar Mohi-ud-Din's work reveals a society where hegemony is maintained by coercion coupled with consensus. The consensus is not earned once for all. People resist and challenge the hegemony continuously and therefore liberty does not become a state of being rather it is an incessant act, a becoming. The paper is an analysis of his short fiction to show how liberty becomes a continuous exercise of protest rather than a state of being, and how the hegemonic power structures are demolished and re-established.