Subaltern Can Speak and Resist : A study of Mahasweta Devi’s Draupadi and Dhouli
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The status of women specially the tribal women , in dominant patriarchy is very low . They are marginalized and exploited in various ways . A dedicated social activist , Mahasweta Devi is concerned with the betterment of subaltern people . Her writing depict the struggle for endurance of subaltern women to overcome the oppression and violence brought by the privileged sections of the society by the politics of gender, caste and class . In Draupadi , Draupadi is a tribal woman who is subjected to brutal torture and gang rape . Dhouli is subjected to dehumanization and she is considered as an outcast . Both of the protagonists have been presented as subaltern and their struggle in the elite society . Both of them can really speak and put resistance in their own way to shake the conscience of the so called high caste and class in society.
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