মহাশ্বেতা দেবীর সাহিত্য ধারায় অন্ত্যজ নারী ও আদিবাসী জীবন জিজ্ঞাসা - Atmadeep

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Volume-I, Issue-III, March 2025
Volume-I, Issue-III, January, 2025
মহাশ্বেতা দেবীর সাহিত্য ধারায় অন্ত্যজ নারী ও আদিবাসী জীবন জিজ্ঞাসা
বিকাশ মন্ডল, স্বাধীন গবেষক, বালিগুমা, বাঁকুড়া, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ, ভারত             
Received: 13.01.2025
Accepted: 25.01.2025
Published Online: 30.01.2025
Page No: 683-692
DOI: 10.69655/atmadeep.vol.1.issue.03W.057
The Literary Tradition of Mahasweta Devi: Inquiry into the Lives of Marginalized Women and Indigenous Communities
Bikash Mandal, Independent Researcher, Baliguma, Bankura, West Bengal, India
ABSTRACT
Mahashweta Devi was one of the greatest novelist and fiction writers of Bengali language. She was also known to be an active social worker. That is why; she had the opportunity to observe the people different areas very closely, most of which are indigenous communities and which lies in the lower stratum' of society, like the Bagdi, Dom, Pakhamara, Ganju, Mal, Khariya, Bauri etc. Based on her real life experiences, she has created many literature by using the social life of those inferior communities which have represented different ethnicities in different fields. She emerged in Bengali literature in 1956 by writing 'Jhasir rani', an autobiographical fiction. Besides her novel she wrote many short stories wherein we find many tribal and subaltern women characters who always remonstrate against their social and sexual exploitation or deprivation. In her short story 'Droupadi', 'Shikar' we draw up the main protagonist two tribal characters who protest against their sexual exploitation. But in her 'Bayen' 'Rudali' 'Dhouli' she left a big question about social stigma against subaltern women. She spent most of her life with the indigenous tribal people and with the communities who were on the 'lower stratum' of Culture. In this article, we will try to highlight the 'life' and 'lore' of different tribal culture and subaltern women of the communities of 'lower stratum' in Mahashweta Devi's literature and it will also be discussed how she played her role to help them.
Keyword :
  • Tribe
  • Subaltern women
  • Lifestyle
  • Deprivation
  • Suppression.
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