Tortured bodies, rape, and disposability in Mahasweta Devi’s 'Giribala,' 'Dhowli' and 'Douloti the Bountiful'

Autor:	Mary Cappelli
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	ethnic literature gender adivasi tribals reproductive justice indigenous studies ecology mahasweta devi maria mies gayatri spivak Social Sciences
Zdroj:	Cogent Social Sciences, Vol 2, Iss 1 (2016)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	2331-1886 23311886
DOI:	10.1080/23311886.2016.1232343
Popis:	This article offers a close reading of Mahasweta Devi’s ethnographic reportage in her short narratives “Giribala” and “Dhowli,” in Women, Outcastes, Peasants and Rebels and “Douloti the Bountiful” in Imaginary Maps to show how ecological marginalization, reproductive rape and unequal resource access have depleted Adivasi female reproductive spaces, disposing them to sexualized and commodified sites of exploitative ideological values. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, I argue that Devi’s cultural production provides an ethnographic venue for examining how power relations shape reproduction and reproductive decisions and how women struggle daily to reproduce their livelihoods under local levels of political duress.
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