Analyzing the ‘abject’: A negotiation through extremism and subalternity in Amitava Kumar’s Husband of a Fanatic
The inter-communal violence that happened in the Western state of Gujarat in 2002 has been one of the deadliest communal violence happened in post-millennia India. Amitava Kumar’s political novel Husband of a Fanatic (2004), delineates the lives of survivors living in the government relief camps in...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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Journal for the study of religions and ideologies
Year: 2021, Volume: 20, Issue: 60, Pages: 34-47 |
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Extremism
B Subalternity B Gujarat riots B Abject B Communal Violence |
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| Summary: | The inter-communal violence that happened in the Western state of Gujarat in 2002 has been one of the deadliest communal violence happened in post-millennia India. Amitava Kumar’s political novel Husband of a Fanatic (2004), delineates the lives of survivors living in the government relief camps in the aftermath of communal violence. The paper argues that through the employment of grotesque images and figures in the narratives, the author manages to draw horror and revulsion to the readers wherein these figures construe as ‘abject’ (Ilott 2014, 664). Drawing upon the theory of ‘abjection’ by Julia Kristeva (1980), the paper analyzes the figures of abjection employed in the narratives of the novel that crudely depicts the survivor’s physical viscera and camp life in the aftermath of the violence. Furthermore, the paper analyzes how the sufferings and trauma caused by the communal violence opens up the debate on extremism and subalternity in the novel. Through the close reading methodology, the article provides a fresh analysis into the postcolonial literary trajectories of abjection, extremism and subalternity. |
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| ISSN: | 1583-0039 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of religions and ideologies
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