PERSONAL IS POLITICAL: GESTURES OF SOLIDARITY FROM THE MOTHER FOREST AND CHENGARA
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https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v4.i2.2023.2856Keywords:
Life Narrative, Land, Power, CasteAbstract [English]
The paper attempts to perceive how the land takes possession of some social and political proportions and how this socially and politically reframed land turns out to be a premise through which relationships of dominance and subordination get operated and hierarchies maintained. The study takes up the issues of land, caste and the individual to substantiate the point that geographical space invariably proves to be a socially created reality rather than a sheer physical structure. The life narratives of C. K. Janu and Seleena Prakkanam bear testimony to it. It is very pertinent and appropriate to study these life narratives due to the inextricable link between caste and land in shaping the narrative experience of these women with seldom receptiveness in the so-called highbrow discourses.
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