Mapping the spatiality of the Indian Indigenous woman

Figuration of Sarah Joseph's Budhini as a nomadic subject

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2389593
AutoresMrinalini Raj (0000-0002-1457-7850, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, autor correspondente), Sarbani Banerjee (0000-0002-1741-2445, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee)
Ano2025
Volume21
Fascículo4
Páginas708-715
Data de publicação2025-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAlterNative An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1177-1801 • E-ISSN: 1174-1740
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/11771801251358914
OpenAlexW4412673446
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas12

This article aims to contribute to the larger discussion of the women of the Indian Indigenous communities in the gender discourse with a focus on the Santal (one of the largest Indigenous communities in India). It studies Sarah Joseph's novel Budhini (2019/2021) based on the real-life story of Budhini, a Santal woman treated as an outcast by her community. It analyzes the figuration of an Indigenous woman as a nomadic subject in Indian society without her community. It explores how the position of an Indigenous woman is situated at the confluence of several strands of oppression through a reading of her usage of physical space reflecting her marginality. Reading the novel based on the framework of nomadic figuration and the discourse on space, it will analyze space as a medium of exercising power through exclusion, structuring the protagonist's gendered identity in her struggles and oppression

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