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ID114598
Title ProperUnfinished story
Other Title Informationthe representation of adivasis in Indian feminist literature
LanguageENG
AuthorTurner, Elen
Publication2012.
Summary / Abstract (Note)Contemporary Indian feminism is concerned with a number of social justice issues, including the circumstances under which 'adivasis' or tribal people, live. India has a large body of work on these peoples, but much of this romanticises them and fails to treat them as the inhabitants of a modern, industrial and globalising India. In this article, I discuss two works published by Indian feminist presses that provide new and alternative ways of representing adivasis. Anita Agnihotri's Forest Interludes: A Collection of Journals and Fiction is a multi-genre collection that reflects the author's time spent as an IAS officer in adivasi regions of eastern India. Agnihotri plays the dual role of privileged outsider and informed insider, which lends her narrative a forceful authority. Bhaskaran's life story of the Keralite adivasi activist C.K. Janu, Mother Forest: The Unfinished Story of C.K. Janu, attempts to present adivasi politics as relevant to modern India, yet the formal structuring of the text and the stylistic choices made by the translator and editors undercuts this. Both Forest Interludes and Mother Forest contain formal and stylistic innovations and, though not without problems, they represent a promising departure from traditional literary representations of adivasis - a departure that situates these subaltern peoples within a more contemporary discursive field.
`In' analytical NoteContemporary South Asia Vol. 20, No.3; Sep 2012: p.327-339
Journal SourceContemporary South Asia Vol. 20, No.3; Sep 2012: p.327-339
Key WordsAdivasis ;  Feminism ;  India ;  Literature ;  Representation


 
 
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