Pub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.31436/asiatic.v17i2.3000
Pragya Dev, Binod Mishra, Iit Roorkee
Contemporary descriptions of female embodiment are rife with images of violence, domination, and subjugation. Often bracketed as vulnerable, women are constantly subjected to patriarchal and gendered violence. Vulnerability, however, is an ontological condition of humanity and can yield multifarious responses – abuse, love, disarray, violence, generosity, and contempt – making human life precarious. This precariousness, when situated in the Indian context, exposes humans to varied practices of violence enmeshed in vicious systems of caste, class, region, and religion as demonstrated in K. R. Meera’s Hangwoman (2014). Owing to their centuries-old lineage of hangmen, Grddha Mullicks began making nooses right away in their mother’s wombs. Chetna, the first hangwoman in her family, is staged as the successor to her familial duty to the Nation only because of her brother’s tragic amputation of limbs. Subjected to a shrewd media lens and patriarchal manipulation, the struggle of constructing a new-feminist-styled ‘angel of the house’ depicted in the novel whirls poignant questions to corporeal vulnerability. This article scrutinises the societal treatment of vulnerability and explores physical, interpersonal, and epistemic violence haunting the book’s pages. It further adds nuances to the engagement of media and identity while examining the precarity of the novel’s characters.
当代对女性形象的描述充斥着暴力、统治和征服的形象。女性通常被视为弱势群体，不断受到父权制和性别暴力的侵害。然而，脆弱是人类的本体论条件，可以产生多种反应--虐待、爱、混乱、暴力、慷慨和蔑视--使人类生活岌岌可危。正如 K. R. Meera 的《女刽子手》（Hangwoman，2014 年）所展示的那样，在印度的语境下，这种不稳定性使人类暴露在种姓、阶级、地区和宗教等恶性制度下的各种暴力实践中。由于拥有数百年的刽子手血统，Grddha Mullicks 在母亲的子宫里就开始制作绞索。切特娜是家族中的第一位刽子手，因为哥哥惨遭截肢，她才成为家族对国家责任的继承者。在精明的媒体镜头和父权制的操纵下，小说中描绘的构建新女性主义风格的 "家庭天使 "的斗争引发了关于肉体脆弱性的尖锐问题。本文审视了社会对脆弱性的处理方式，并探讨了萦绕在书页中的身体暴力、人际暴力和认识暴力。文章在审视小说人物的不稳定性的同时，进一步对媒体与身份的关系进行了细微的探讨。
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Pub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.31436/asiatic.v17i2.2996
Esther Daimari, Debajyoti Biswas
This article examines the trope of the ‘missing person’ in the literature about Kashmir and argues, by taking Madhuri Vijay’s The Far Field (2019) as an example, how the trope allows the examination of a multilayered history of violence. The article problematises the idea of visibility and invisibility of the missing/abducted/hidden/underground people during conflict and suggests that these figures can be read as metaphors for personal and collective trauma and loss. By triangulating three coordinates in Kashmiri context – violence, trauma, and invisibility – the essay argues that a missing person can be emblematic of memories of trauma, negation of humanity, violation of body, and public complicity in institutional violence. By foregrounding Shalini’s journey to recover the missing people, the novel underpins the “rot remains” of a society afflicted with violence and state apathy. Within the framework of trauma theory in the postcolonial context, the essay shows how the focus of Vijay’s narrative of Kashmiri people’s trauma is shifted from speech to body. The emphasis on the body contributes to a compelling narration of trauma by conflating land and people.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.31436/asiatic.v17i2.3016
Muhammad Shah Daniel
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Pub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.31436/asiatic.v17i2.3001
Syafruddin, Brillianing Pratiwi, Isra F. Sianipar
The aims of the study are to explore the occurrence of Redundant Acronym Syndrome (RAS) in Indonesian news articles and examine its implications by employing corpus analysis approach. The main source of the data from the Indonesian news corpus, which consists of 150,466 articles from Indonesian news websites over a six-month period spanned from July 2015 to December 2015. The data analysis was conducted by using Antconc software version 4.02. The analysis reveals a systematic and recognisable structure in acronym formation, highlighting cultural or organisational conventions such as initial phoneme retention, retention of syllables + letters, and retention of syllables and syllables, and retention of initial phonemes and letters. The findings of this study revealed a total of 40 Redundant Acronym with 5730 occurrences identified in the Indonesian news corpus, covering various fields such as the name of football clubs, banks, political parties, educational institutions, government-related terms, and commonly used phrases. This research also discussed that that RAS in news articles can have both negative and positive impacts. It negatively impact readability by making repetitions and potentially confusing the reader. In contrast, RAS can also improve clarity by emphasising certain aspects or reinforcing associations in acronyms, so that readers can instantly recognise and understand them. The findings provided valuable insights for news writers and editors, emphasising the importance of a balance between readability and clarity in news articles.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.31436/asiatic.v17i2.2997
Raihan Rosman
The position of Muslim women is much debated, as they are often perceived as oppressed, subjugated, and victims of patriarchal society. However, Islam ensures women’s dignity as equal human beings. Nevertheless, cultural expectations and the multiplicity of interpretations of Islamic teachings lead to various conventions, practices, and beliefs that limit women’s rights. Based on this observation, this paper explores Muslim women’s sartorial liberty and right to education as depicted in Shelina Zahra Janmohamed’s Love in a Headscarf. It emphasises the distinction between the Islamic faith and Muslim cultural practices, and examines the ways in which the text supports and develops what Islam has given women.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.31436/asiatic.v17i2.3006
Sabiha Huq
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Pub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.31436/asiatic.v17i2.3011
Abdul Hai
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Pub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.31436/asiatic.v17i2.2998
Binayak Roy
Literary narrative provides a new perspective of looking at the historical past, often questioning the credibility of representation. Interrogating what Hayden White calls history’s tropic prefiguration, the prominence given to key historical figures, the erasure of subaltern individuals or communities, literature foregrounds the role of narrative in constructing the way one understands the world, meaning, and truth. A postcolonial writer, in their critical re-interpretation of the historical archive, creates a hybrid text that combines historical evidences and imaginative reconstructions, and historical as well as invented characters. With this interplay, history is stripped of its objective quality. This article seeks to explore how Debendranath Acharya’s Jangam presents the precarious condition of the migrant Burmese Indian peasants during World War II and the manner in which they establish a community during their historically forgotten long march to Assam. What Acharya attempts to reconcile in Jangam are the “analytical” histories through utilising the rational categories of modern historical thought and the “affective” histories which account for the plural ways of being-in-the-world.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.31436/asiatic.v17i2.3003
Talat, Sukhdev Singh
Owing to the graded inequality inherent in Indian society, Dalit women lie at the bottom of the hierarchy with no power to execute. In short, one can say that they are “Dalit of Dalits.” The present paper looks at the challenges and exclusionary practices faced by the Dalit women with reference to the works of Bama’s Sangati (2005) and Baby Kamble’s The Prison We Broke (2008). Delving into the concepts of gender and caste, the paper aims to demonstrate how both writers portray the idea of the outsider within the identity of Dalit women. It will also deal with how this outsider within identity gives them a standpoint of their own. In its entirety, the paper highlights the challenges and haplessness of Dalit women because of their identity and their zealousness in fighting the oppressive forces.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.31436/asiatic.v17i2.2993
Md. Mahmudul Hasan
Unbearable scenes of cruelty and human suffering challenge the tendency of a section of academics to overlook the reality of everyday life and to remain detached from the wider world that they are supposed to serve intellectually. The recent episode of prolonged genocidal killings of Palestinians by Israeli forces has brought this question again to the fore. Given the ongoing human tragedy in Gaza, in this essay I seek to advance the ethos of writerly commitment to promoting equity and justice, drawing especially on the works of Edward Said and Ngugi wa Thiong’o.
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