Abstract
The paper aims at examining Easterine Kire Iralu’s novel A Terrible Matriarchy (2007) from feminist point of view. The novel A Terrible Matriarchy is the coming-of-age story of a young girl, Dielieno. The narrative explores the suffering of innocent Dielieno and her confrontation with the traditional Angami society to which she belongs to. In the ethnic world of Nagaland, both patriarchal and matriarchal control co-exists but it also has a strong Tantric tradition from time immemorial. For various reasons the status of women in the northeast has not been different from the women in the mainstream of India. Easterine Iralu through her girl protagonist Dielieno depicts the severe gender discrimination where the grandmother neglected Lieno to the worst extent, always caring and preferring the boys. The grandmother's matriarchal hegemony makes Lieno revolt silently. The various aspects of women's marginal status and native culture have been analyzed in the paper.
Highlights
SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH grandmother's matriarchal hegemony makes Lieno revolt silently
The novel revolves round its tiny protagonist Dielieno and describes her journey from a little child to a young woman who got married in the end
‘Dielieno’ the Angami name mean errand girl, so it is the name that tells us status of girl child in Angami society and describes much of her life from five to www.ijellh.com e-ISSN: 2582-3574 p-ISSN: 2582-4406
Summary
SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH grandmother's matriarchal hegemony makes Lieno revolt silently. Her novel A Terrible Matriarchy (ATM) is an evocative tale of young five years old girl Dielieno growing up in a traditional Naga society in India’s North-East. At the age of five, she was sent to live with her disciplinarian grandmother Vibano who wanted her to grow up to be good Naga wife and mother.
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