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Resisting Historical Silences: Rewriting History from the Margins in Sangati and The Little School

Author(s) Dr. Atreya Banerjee
Country India
Abstract This article looks at both Sangati by Indian Tamil Dalit author Bama Faustina, and The Little School by Argentinian author and activist Alicia Partnoy as subjective narratives which challenge the ways in which historical facts and events are presented by conventional “mainstream” history, which is a direct product of White Western European colonial historiography. Through texts like these the two authors in their own specific geographical spaces and cultures, bring to front voices of their respective marginalized communities, as they present authentic, witnessed pictures of their community lives, their lived-experiences, and real-life figures – all of that, and all of those who otherwise tend to get hidden or deleted from mainstream history, without reaching a wider audience. The mainstream history is critiqued in the postcolonial literary and research spaces as one that poses as a narrative that seems obviously moulded in accordance with the convenience and choices of the particular historiographer, often influenced by their own biases or political agenda. Bama and Partnoy also show in their texts how the indigenous communities and marginalized voices of women come to terms with the brutal colonial oppression and blows, and then start the process of a new postcolonial identity-creation by “writing back” and healing themselves through it. How the voice and the truth of one person from the community becomes that of its entirety. These two texts will be discussed as ones which could exist at the interesting intersection of being both literary texts and historical documents that bring out hidden histories and suppressed truths “from below”.
Keywords Subaltern, History, Historiography, Women’s narratives, Marginalization, Literature, Postcolonial literature, Indigenous community, Dalit writing
Field Sociology > Linguistic / Literature
Published In Volume 7, Issue 3, May-June 2025
Published On 2025-06-10
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i03.47748
Short DOI https://doi.org/g9pz4q
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