Devi, Mahasweta

This dissertation explores postcolonial fiction that reflects the structural situation of a genocidal number of third-world women who are being trafficked for sexual purposes from postcolonial countries into the global north—invariably, gender, class and race play a crucial role…

The dissertation studies literary writings by women—Jyotirmoyee Devi and Mahasweta Devi from India and Jahanara Imam and Taslima Nasreen from Bangladesh—and through these texts examines four instances of catastrophic political violence in South Asia. These are the Partition of t…

This thesis germinated from Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?" which has provoked many discussions and the use of the word "Subaltern" has become a cliché. However, the representations of Subalterns remain an important element in any South Asian litera…