LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 13 : 1 January 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
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         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
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         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
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Language of Defiance: Female Emancipation in Mahasweta Devi’s
Mother of 1084

M. Kovilpillai, Ph.D. Research Scholar
T. Deivasigamani, Ph.D.


Mahasweta Devi is a well-known Indian woman writer in the twentieth century. She is a committed social activist. Her writings portray the poverty, hunger, oppression and corruption in the society. As Sujit Mukherjee states, Mahasweta Devi turns “to recording the present instead of reconstructing the past.”

Her novel Mother of 1084 is a fiction of documentation in which she seeks the roots of the revolutionary fervor of the urban rebels. In the novel, Mahasweta Devi deals with an immediate past in order to comment on the present in which many mothers and their sons are driven to martyrdom.

Mahasweta Devi’s works concentrate on the issues of exploitation and marginalization as long continuing socio-historical process embedded in social and cultural practices, a focus on the interlocking structures of oppression, the criss-cross of multiple hierarchies of class, caste and gender. Her works fill the gap within literature on what must be considered the most significant peasant movement in the India of the last third of the twentieth Century. This paper focuses on the language of defiance in relation to female emancipation in Mahasweta Devi’s Mother of 1084.


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M. Kovilpillai, Ph.D. Research Scholar

T. Deivasigamani, Ph.D., Research Guide
drdeivasigamani@yahoo.co.in

Department of English
Annamalai University
Annamalainagar 608 002
Tamilnadu
India

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