The Study of Postcolonial Feminist Mahasweta Devi

The study of contemporary Postcolonial feminist Mahasweta Devi’s Short Stories “Drupadi, Breast-giver, Behind the Bodice” utters the viewpoint of class and gender clearly. It underlines the fact that the society in which Mahasweta works seems to be starkly divided into two classes- the rich and privileged, and the not are unprivileged. The woman emerges to be a class of low standard has been dominated and doesn’t seem to have attained her freedom even in independent countries. Her sufferings are often under-looked and eventually she merges into the latter class which never asserting her rights and dignity.
Class conflicts have always been there in history. In fact, neither cast or class but the economical status is all that matter for a person to uphold. A person is judged by spending capacity or the position he or she holds. Mahasweta Devi focus remains in the socio-economic aspects that divide the society on the aspects of disability. Here the term disable particular about the economical disability of the person who’s strategically remains low. She imposed the class struggle in her Breast trilogy in all the ways. Her protagonist “Gangor, Drupadi, Jashoda” are all holding with different distinguished circumstance but the constant tussle which moves on their life with the ultimate oppression is due to class struggle.
Furthermore she addresses the gender questions and the differences seen between the sexes through socio-economic relation which ultimately influence to oppress female identity of Third World indigenous women. The particularity of dominating Subaltern women by men asserting illiterate, it was clearly stated that Mahasweta Devi’s portrayal of women who underwent supressment are not literate. Here, she protes...

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...al, subversive, migrant identities. By extracting the short stories, Devi’s descriptions of exiting contribution of the local traditions and of the oppressed women are visibly seen with their pathetic conditions. Devi’s cluster of thinking allows her to engagement with rural poor women’s are about to convicts her protest writing which evidently object the class and Gender conflict. Thus, the complex issues of gender and class factually accepted with subaltern identity proven that they are in ultimate oppressed condition and also they are victimized at economical and sexual level.
This project subjected how class and gender goes together and strategically approach on the lower standard people and victimized them at various level. These also generate the new scope of ideas with the recognition of society which women’s undertaking violence of the gaze.