Mapping the spatiality of the Indian Indigenous woman: figuration of Sarah Joseph’s Budhini as a nomadic subject
This article aims to contribute to the larger discussion of the women of the Indian Indigenous communities in the gender discourse with a focus on the Santal (one of the largest Indigenous communities in India). It studies Sarah Joseph’s novel Budhini (2019/2021) based on the real-life story of Budh...
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| Abstract | This article aims to contribute to the larger discussion of the women of the Indian Indigenous communities in the gender discourse with a focus on the Santal (one of the largest Indigenous communities in India). It studies Sarah Joseph’s novel Budhini (2019/2021) based on the real-life story of Budhini, a Santal woman treated as an outcast by her community. It analyzes the figuration of an Indigenous woman as a nomadic subject in Indian society without her community. It explores how the position of an Indigenous woman is situated at the confluence of several strands of oppression through a reading of her usage of physical space reflecting her marginality. Reading the novel based on the framework of nomadic figuration and the discourse on space, it will analyze space as a medium of exercising power through exclusion, structuring the protagonist’s gendered identity in her struggles and oppression. |
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| AbstractList | This article aims to contribute to the larger discussion of the women of the Indian Indigenous communities in the gender discourse with a focus on the Santal (one of the largest Indigenous communities in India). It studies Sarah Joseph’s novel Budhini (2019/2021) based on the real-life story of Budhini, a Santal woman treated as an outcast by her community. It analyzes the figuration of an Indigenous woman as a nomadic subject in Indian society without her community. It explores how the position of an Indigenous woman is situated at the confluence of several strands of oppression through a reading of her usage of physical space reflecting her marginality. Reading the novel based on the framework of nomadic figuration and the discourse on space, it will analyze space as a medium of exercising power through exclusion, structuring the protagonist’s gendered identity in her struggles and oppression. |
| Author | Banerjee, Sarbani Raj, Mrinalini |
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