In:Representing the Exotic and the Familiar: Politics and perception in literature
Edited by Meenakshi Bharat and Madhu Grover
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 12] 2019
► pp. 155–172
Chapter 10Overturning the familiar and the exotic
The fiction of Ranendra and Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
Published online: 28 November 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.12.10set
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.12.10set
Article outline
- The Indian writer and the (exotic) representation of the subaltern
- The neo-colonial Lords of the Global Village
- Representing adivasi women
- Religion as a tool of cultural imperialism and women’s subordination
- Other models of governance and resistance
- Shekhar’s The Adivasi Will Not Dance
- Deconstructing the Adivasi
- The trope of prostitution
- Reader responses
- Two writers, two approaches to representing the Santhals
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