Can the Marginalized Speak?
Hearing Women Voices in Urvashi Butalia’s The Other Side Of Silence -Dipanwita Mondal
Marginality in the wider sense indicates a socio-cultural, political and economic situation, where disadvantaged people struggle to gain access to resources which are normally denied to them, and their attempt of full participation in social life where they will not only counted merely as a part of the population but where their decisions, convenience and inconveniences would be heeded. Marginality in the 20th century does not only involve the condition of the underprivileged class or race but also the real condition and position of women in the society. The eternal struggle of women attempting to occupy the central position of the patriarchal societal structure has been and still is a major subject for marginality related discussion. …show more content…
The ‘facts’ which we believe to be facts may be one side of the story, if we look into them critically we can find the ‘other’ side of the story as well. History of Partition is always or at least in most cases shrouded by political affiliations which often prevent us to know the actual facts. This deliberate silencing apart from having political connotations also are heavily laden with sociological factors whose most apt evidence is the silencing of the women stories, their sufferings, their experiences, their trauma, their memories. Is there any way in which history can make space for the small, the individual
Hearing Women Voices in Urvashi Butalia’s The Other Side Of Silence -Dipanwita Mondal
Marginality in the wider sense indicates a socio-cultural, political and economic situation, where disadvantaged people struggle to gain access to resources which are normally denied to them, and their attempt of full participation in social life where they will not only counted merely as a part of the population but where their decisions, convenience and inconveniences would be heeded. Marginality in the 20th century does not only involve the condition of the underprivileged class or race but also the real condition and position of women in the society. The eternal struggle of women attempting to occupy the central position of the patriarchal societal structure has been and still is a major subject for marginality related discussion. …show more content…
The ‘facts’ which we believe to be facts may be one side of the story, if we look into them critically we can find the ‘other’ side of the story as well. History of Partition is always or at least in most cases shrouded by political affiliations which often prevent us to know the actual facts. This deliberate silencing apart from having political connotations also are heavily laden with sociological factors whose most apt evidence is the silencing of the women stories, their sufferings, their experiences, their trauma, their memories. Is there any way in which history can make space for the small, the individual