Themes and Techniques of Tribal Writers – Quest for Identity of Mahaswetha Devi Novels

Authors: M. Santhosh Kumar

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/426JR

Short DOI: https://doi.org/ggkv7j

Country: India

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Abstract: The recent Indian fiction arrived at the present stature passing through the successive imitative realistic, philosophical and psychological stages .the post fifties indicated a shift In emphasis from the social sphere to the inner life of man .this focus on inwardness offered new horizens from the Indian English writers in terms of thematic perspectives the quest for identity has been the major thrust of the recent Indian English fiction among the recent Indian English novelists. Mahasweta Devi is an eminent Indian Bengali writer, who has been studying and writing incessantly about the life and struggles faced by the tribal communities in the states like Bihar, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Mahasweta Devi graduated from the University of Calcutta and this was followed by an MA degree in English from the Visva Bharti University. The fiction of Mahaswetha Devi from the perspective of quest for identity.it also discusses the struggle of author in resolving different levels of conflicts between individual and community, individual and society and the conflict of contestation of the notion of nationality, as a part of study I covered the novels of Mahaswetha devi.to understand the development of tribal literature, to explore the theme of quest for tribal identity, to bring out the trauma and protest by the tribals in the process of social change , conservation and development of primitive groups, to preserve and protect tribal culture and traditional knowledge.

Keywords: Fiction, identity, philosophical, social, thematic

Paper Id: 173

Published On: 2016-07-20

Published In: Volume 4, Issue 4, July-August 2016

Cite This: Themes and Techniques of Tribal Writers – Quest for Identity of Mahaswetha Devi Novels - M. Santhosh Kumar - IJIRMPS Volume 4, Issue 4, July-August 2016. DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/426JR

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