Writing the Forbidden: A Study of Three Texts, Three Genres, and Three Communiti












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            * Sruti Manjula Devaprakash
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            Writing the Forbidden: A Study of Three Texts, Three Genres, and Three Communities


            Abstract
            Three texts have been chosen for this study: Daya Pawar’s lifenarrative Baluta, Perumal Mu

            historical fiction One Part Woman, and Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s short story collection T
            Will Not Dance. These writers hail from various subaltern groups of the Indian subcontinen
            ethnicities. Besides subalternity, a significant thread connecting these texts is that the

            respective communities took offence at the portrayal of their cultures. This study explore
            representation of the community through a close reading of the texts, and theorizes the re

            between the writer, narrator, characters, and the community. The paper analyses how the wr
            the community in the narrative and the role this plays in the respective spatiotemporal co
            texts. Given the chosen texts are of different genres – a Dalit life-narrative, a historic

            short stories – the paper also explores the genre-ic/form-al differences in the representa
            community.


            Keywords: representation of community; freedom of expression; censorship; subalternity; po
            studies



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