
For Mahasweta Devi, Subalternism means the suffering people, whether male or female, who are unable to resist the atrocities, perpetrated upon them by the high-class, privileged people. Her concept of subalternism is based upon the unjust sufferings and deprivations of the tribal people of West Bengal whom she has observed and experienced with close quarters. Devi’s creative art on the down-trodden tribals represents the realization of their silenced voice, since the suffering sections are never allowed to raise their voice for justice. The observations of Devi, regarding the silent sufferings of the tribals or subalterns, are similar to Bell Hooks who also calls the subalterns, whether at their native place or in foreign land, as the Marginalized people. Both Bell Hooks and Mahasweta Devi assert that the high-class Privileged people, associated with the colonizers or the state authorities, pretend to be the well-wishers of the marginalized people in favour of their self-defence or self-glorification. The present research paper depicts Devi’s clarian call for justice as the liberated voice of the subalterns.
Subalternism, Marginalized People, The Colonizers, Self-Glorification, Clarian Call.
Subalternism, Marginalized People, The Colonizers, Self-Glorification, Clarian Call.
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