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ID158096
Title ProperFabrication of a desired truth
Other Title Information the oblivion of a Naxalite woman in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland
LanguageENG
AuthorAsl, Moussa Pourya
Summary / Abstract (Note)Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland (2013) explores effects of the 1967 Communist Naxalbari uprising in West Bengal India. Irrespective of the glowing reviews the author earned for her truthful representations, the novel presents the pro-Communist uprising in a particular discursive regime that establishes a particular way of remembering and forgetting. Drawing on Foucault’s notion of ‘subjugated knowledges,’ this essay seeks to examine the epistemic hegemonies and mainstream perspectives of the novel that have confined particular experiences and memories of the movement to the margins and rendered them unworthy of epistemic respect in the battle among power/knowledge frameworks. The novel reconstitutes a gendered history of the movement in which women’s story of engagement is spatiotemporally erased and reformulated. I argue that the genealogy of this particular oversight is rooted in the heteronormative capitalist ideology of the States that exercises discursive power over individuals to fabricate a desired truth.
`In' analytical NoteAsian Ethnicity Vol. 19, No.3; Jun 2018: p.383-401
Journal SourceAsian Ethinicity Vol: 19 No 3
Key WordsCapitalism ;  Communism ;  Naxalbar ;  Subjugated Knowledges ;  Female Subjectivity


 
 
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