Postcolonial Indian English Fictions without the Exploration of Subaltern Conscious of Adivasi Culture and History
Author : Dr. Manoj Shankarrao Madavi
Abstract :
Postcolonial literature deals with the issues and identity of the suppressed culture during British Imperialism but it could not give exploration to the Adivasi issues of identity and existence. It is to be considered that postcolonialism observes history as a complete framework of knowledge, observations and investigations but it is also a moving account of historical senses with which individuals engaged it at different levels. We find our engagements with social, political, historical, cultural and literary issues which undermined during colonial rule. Adivasi-the very son of the soil in India misses their existence in the creative writing of postcolonial writers. Their fight with colonial imperialist remains in dark shadow because of the dominant hegemonical approach in literature writing. This research article tries to examine how the tribal issues of disposition and subjugation be neglected or overrated by the established stalwarts in Indian English writing. The present research article focuses on the issues of cultural and intellectual silence maintained by mainstream intelligentsia on the most debatable issues of Indigenous subjugation. Research article also throws light on the historical marginalization and double disposition of native tribals of India in postcolonial Indian English writings especially in the novel writings. This research article urges to mainstream writing to go beyond the aesthetic pleasure of creative writing and glorification of tribal writing and feel the pain of disposition and separation of their natural abode and way of free living without the shackles of modernity. This research focuses to view the indigenous life from the spectacles of neoliberalism, globalization and its drastic impact which was elope in mainstream Indian writings in English.
Keywords :
Indigenous ethos, cultural hierarchy, marginality, culture of silence, aesthetics
