Open AccessSubalterns’ oppression in the Post Colonial Society of Aravind Adiga and Bina Shah
Author(s) -
A. Lavanya,
M R Rashila
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
shanlax international journal of english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2320-2645
DOI - 10.34293/english.v8i3.3164
Subject(s) - subaltern , oppression , caste , colonialism , gender studies , sociology , hegemony , power (physics) , white (mutation) , slum , ethnography , anthropology , politics , political science , law , population , physics , demography , quantum mechanics , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
The term ‘subaltern’ identifies and illustrates the man, the woman, and the public who is socially, politically, and purely outside of the hegemonic power organization. Nowadays, Subaltern concern has become so outstanding that it recurrently used in diverse disciplines such as history, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and literature. The notion of subaltern holds the groups that are marginalized, subjugated, and exploited based on social, cultural, spiritual, and biased grounds. The main purpose of this paper is to expose various themes such as oppression, marginalization, the subjugation of inferior people and working classes, gender discrimination, unnoticed women, deprived classes, racial and caste discrimination, etc. It is one of the subdivisions of post colonialism. In this paper, Aravind Adiga and Bina Shah illustrate subalterns through The White Tiger and Slum Child.