The Struggle Of South Asian Women: Gender Subalternity In Postcolonial Fiction

Abstract

The current study is qualitative in nature and is based on a close textual analysis of five novels that were chosen from five distinct south Asian countries. These novels serve as the research's primary source. In the light of a selection of south Asian literature, the aim is to evaluate the subaltern's silence, resistance, and transformation as well as its agency and society reaction. The main goal of[1] the analysis is to show how certain works of fiction reflect the various facets and how diasporic fiction writers reflect the silence, resistance, struggle, and agency of subaltern subjects speculating on the postcolonial subaltern theory (1988). The study examines the voiceless and submissive position of female subjects experiencing both patriarchal oppression and postcolonial sadness at the same time, all under the auspices of Spivak's subaltern theory (1988). The research primarily examines the hardships and discrimination experienced by women who are doubly subaltern due to the effects of patriarchy and colonialism.