Voice of a Mother’s Protest in Mahasweta Devi’s “Mother of 1084”
Keywords:
Naxalite Movement, Patriarchy, Naxalite movement, patriarchalAbstract
Mahasweta Devi was awarded Jnanpith Award in 1996 for “Mother of 1084” by South African Freedom fighter and president Nelson Mandela. It is outcome of Devi’s witness of the Naxalite movement and its after effects Devi successfully depicts merciless killing of youth and its impact. The story embodies four chapters, Dusk, Afternoon, Evening and Night. Sujata shows mirror to the members of her family as an outcome of suffocation due to patriarchal system. No Mother ever forgets her dead child. This personal loss bears a universal phenomenon. Sujata thinks that the human society is devoid of humanity. At last Sujata decides to leave the house. Her appendix bursts which symbolizes bursting breaking and spreading the protest for rights and against exploitation.
References
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Devi, Mahasweta, Mother of 1084, Trans. Gayatri Chakervorty Spivak Calcutta. Seagnll. 1997. Print.
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Spivak, Gayatri Chakarvorty, “The Author in Conversation” Imaginary maps. New York: Rontleauge Book, 1995. ix – xxiii. Print.
