Rising above (S) exploitation

Abstract

Empowering the women in literary context has always taken the academia on storm. The latent desire of authors and scholars to see an egalitarian world has been channelised in contextualising the female self-sureness in their authors characterisation. However, women characters of mainstream society have gained acclaimed acknowledgement way before than the ones belonging to the marginal communities. The belief that Tribal women are less participative and contributively less active in tribal ecriture has reigned the scholastic views. Such perception has changed its course in post-colonial era and the tribal women have found their voice in their characterisation. The present article challenges the resigned perceivability of the Santhal women and maps on how they have been empowered by the sole Santhal writer writing in English, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar. He aces up to bring them to the frontier. Wide array of women characters from various socio-economic framework, within the Santhal community, form the content of his discussion. The concerned Santhal community has never seen such textual presentation of their women in broader platform and the Anglophone contemporary writer, Hansda, is instrumental in his competence of writing his texts in English to reach out to the vast range of audience