Fabrication of a desired truth
The oblivion of a Naxalite woman in Jhumpa Lahiri’sThe Lowland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6039802 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Moussa Pourya Asl (0000-0002-8426-426X, Universiti Sains Malaysia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 383-401 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Ethnicity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1463-1369 • E-ISSN: 1469-2953 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14631369.2018.1429892 |
| OpenAlex | W2794085584 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 25 |
Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland (2013) explores effects of the 1967 Communist Naxalbari uprising in West Bengal India. Irrespective of the glowing reviews the author earned for her truthful representations, the novel presents the pro-Communist uprising in a particular discursive regime that establishes a particular way of remembering and forgetting. Drawing on Foucault’s notion of ‘subjugated knowledges,’ this essay seeks to examine the epistemic hegemonies and mainstream perspectives of the novel that have confined particular experiences and memories of the movement to the margins and rendered them unworthy of epistemic respect in the battle among power/knowledge frameworks. The novel reconstitutes a gendered history of the movement in which women’s story of engagement is spatiotemporally erased and reformulated. I argue that the genealogy of this particular oversight is rooted in the heteronormative capitalist ideology of the States that exercises discursive power over individuals to fabricate a desired truth
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Battle · Communism · Epistemology · Forgetting · Ideology · Mainstream · Michel foucault · Political science · Politics · Sociology · American and British Literature Analysis · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Race, History, and American Society
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2024 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |