FEMINIST AND POSTCOLONIAL DISCOURSES IN BHABANI BHATTACHARYA’S NOVELS: THE PORTRAYAL OF FAMINE AND HUNGER
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https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v7.i1.2026.7011Keywords:
Subversion, Marginality, Other, Storytelling, Narration, Culture, Feminism, Post-ColonialismAbstract [English]
Bhabani Bhattacharya's novels are an insightful study of socio-political and cultural dimensions of famine and hunger in the colonial and postcolonial India. This study examines his works, in particular So Many Hungers! and He Who Rides a Tiger to see how famine and hunger are not only physical realities that are devastating, but also potent metaphors for systemic oppression, economic exploitation and moral degradation under British imperial rule. Moving beyond the simple corporeal analysis offered by bodies from subjugated colonized subjects, Bhattacharya's narrative critiques colonial policies including mismanagement of resources and the privileging of the needs of imperial wartime over local welfare, which made the famines worse and the human suffering even more so.
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