Partition through The Subaltern Lenses in Bapsi Sidhwa’s The Ice Candy Man
Journal Title: International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 3, Issue 6
Abstract
Since the last two decades the theory of Subaltern has attained much recognition. The term subaltern, coined by Antonio Gramsci, designates the people who are socially, politically and geographically outside the power structure. This paper aims to study partition in the light of the subaltern theory. It tries to study the subaltern characters and partition through their eyes. More so, because the subalterns were only represented by others and so it puts forth the argument that whether they were modified while being represented. Would the story be any different if it were told by the subalterns themselves? The subalterns had nothing much to lose and did partition matter to them as they were already depressed enough.
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- DOI 10.22161/ijels.3.6.42
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