In the discourse of post colonialism, the centre and the margin maintains a dichotomous relation and India’s Northeast offers a potential space for narrativizing internal colonization and dispossession from a gendered praxis. My paper seeks to address these issues as touched upon in her novel The Collector’s Wife by well known Assamese writer and columnist Mitra Phukan, by making a symptomatic reading of the text through a postcolonial feminist lens. The gendered realities existing amidst insurgency issues, student unrest, border crossing, trouble in the tea gardens is the main thrust of the novel that makes possible a probing of feminine experience in terms of identity, ethnicity, gender, language and dispossession.
The focal point in Phukan’s narrative is the small town, middle class, upper caste educated woman Rukimini who examines gender constructs that marginalize woman from her vantage point of being a bureaucrat’s wife. Her own social identity as the part time lecturer is diminutive to that of her husband’s status as the District Commissioner. The paper seeks to enquire Rukmini’s subject position in terms of inhabiting the margins of being a postcolonial, subaltern and further a north eastern woman in co- relation …show more content…
Postcolonial feminism, often referred to as Third World feminism, is a form of feminist philosophy which centers
The focal point in Phukan’s narrative is the small town, middle class, upper caste educated woman Rukimini who examines gender constructs that marginalize woman from her vantage point of being a bureaucrat’s wife. Her own social identity as the part time lecturer is diminutive to that of her husband’s status as the District Commissioner. The paper seeks to enquire Rukmini’s subject position in terms of inhabiting the margins of being a postcolonial, subaltern and further a north eastern woman in co- relation …show more content…
Postcolonial feminism, often referred to as Third World feminism, is a form of feminist philosophy which centers