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The Silent "Others": A Study on Selected Folktales of Lakshminath Bezbarua's BURHI AAIR SADHU

Author(s) Ms. Mompi Saikia
Country India
Abstract Folktales are a mirror of the society. It is generally claimed that to understand a community one must go through its treasure house of folktales. The experts in this field believe that folktales around the world serve some special functions that are recurrent in nature. William Bascom has identified four general features of the genre of folktales which are more or less common around the world. One of them is the subjugated status of women in the patriarchal world of the folktales. This, without question, is also a special facet of folktales of Assam. Many research works are done on subsidiary position of women in the folk narratives along with their problematic silence. Their silence can definitely be studied with the recent developments in gender theory. But equally problematic is the silence of the “Raij” or the society as depicted in the Assamese folktales. This paper intends to find out why the society in these folktales remains silent even though it witnesses injustice and cruelty particularly inflicted on the womenfolk. For this purpose the researcher has selected three popular folktales from Lakshminath Bezbarua‟s collection of folktales Burhi Aair Sadhu (Old Grandmother's Tales) viz. “Mekurir Jiyekor Sadhu” (Cat's Daughter's Tale), “Tejimola” and “Tula Aru Teja” (Tula and Teja).
Keywords Folktales, Silence, Gender Performativity, Jealousy.
Field Arts
Published In Volume 4, Issue 5, September-October 2022
Published On 2022-09-09
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