국가 폭력과 낙살라이트 운동을 통해서 본 1990년 이후 인도 영어 소설

National Violence and Naxalite Movement in Post-1990 Indian English Novels: Jhumpa Lahiri, Arundhati Roy, and Rohinton Mistry.

The paper examines Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland , Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things , and Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance to explore the politics of the representation of the Naxalite movement and national violence in postcolonial India. To that end, it sheds light on the limits of the theory of biopolitics, especially Giorgio Agamben’s concept of Homo Sacer. In an effort to appropriate and complement the existing theory of bio-power critically, it focuses on the agency of sacrifice in the form of resistance against the dominant authorities. Against this backdrop, killings at the hands of the police and even suicide can be interpreted as acts of sacrifice which can open the possibility of transforming or even subverting the relationship of power in a postcolonial context.