살만 루시디와 로힌턴 미스트리 소설의 인도 여성들: 서발턴 주체의 저항과 한계

Female Characters in the Novels of Salman Rushdie and Rohinton Mistry: Subaltern Subjects’ Resistance and Its Limits.

This paper examines the ways in which marginalized women in the novels of Salman Rushdie and Rohinton Mistry use traditional female tasks such as sewing and veiling to counter male-dominated discourse and create an alternative way of narrating history. To that end, the research problematizes Western feminism and patriarchal nationalism in the Third World so as to shed light on the agency of subaltern women and its limits in the Indian Subcontinent. Despite Spivak’s pessimistic conclusion that subalterns have no voice of their own, this paper appropriates her idea of strategic essentialism to examine the voice of otherness conveyed through the means of quilt, shawl, and veil, particularly in Rushdie’s Shame and Mistry’s A Fine Balance .