SCRUTINIZING THE COPIOUS OUTLOOK AND CUSTOM OF CULTURAL STUDIES
December 31, 2024AFFIRMATION AND RESISTANCE IN BAMA’S “CHILLI POWDER”
Karthikeyan, P.
Assistant Professor, Department of English, K. R. Arts & Science College, Kovilpatti, Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, India.
Abstract
The paper examines gender and caste difficulties that Dalit women face from a fresh angle by looking at Bama’s short story “Chilli Powder,” which is taken from the book The Ichi Tree Monkey. The current state of Dalit women and the exploitation of them in the Gender and caste names are important research topics. Women are twice as disadvantaged as Dalit men are: first, for being Dalit, and second, just for being female. They fall prey to both internal and external patriarchal societal structures. The current research, however, focuses on Bama’s novel interpretation of how Dalit women exhibit the bravery to rebel, assert, and articulate their fight against subjugation.
Keywords
caste, gender and class, assertion, resistance, humiliation, subjugation.
Works Cited
Bama. “Chilli Powder.” The Ichi Tree Monkey: New and Selected Stories. Trans. N Ravi Shankar, Speaking Tree Books, 2021.
– – -. Karukku, Trans. Lakshmi Holmstrom, OUP, 2012.
Deshpande, Satish. The Problem of Caste. Orient Blackswan, 2014.
Navya, V. K. “Caste, Gender and Resistance: A Critical Study of Bama’s Sangati.” SOCRATES, vol. 2, no. 1, 2014, pp. 20-27.
To cite this article
Karthikeyan, P. (2024). Affirmation and Resistance in Bama’s “Chilli Powder”. John Foundation Journal of EduSpark, 6(4), 36-43.