Representation of Women Farmers in Foreign and The Long March

Author(s)	Prachi Pal
Country	India
Abstract	This paper examines the representation of women farmers in Indian Writing in English, mainly in the Vidarbha region, focusing on the literary texts Sonora Jha’s Foreign (2013) and Namita Waikar’s The Long March (2018). Sociological research indicates that women farmers are crucial contributors to the agricultural labor force. Around 80% of the labour is women while only 13% of the women own land. Because of this, they are erased culturally as well as politically and often merely categorised as “farmers wives” or “invisible workers”. Through the close reading of two fictional novels, this study will show how fiction performs a “corrective function” by countering the struggles and experiences of women like Gayatribai Andhale and the collective resilience of female protesters. Through literary analysis and feminist political economy, this paper will show how these stories of modern India confronts the notion that farming is a man job. These texts also highlight the violence of globalization and argue for feminist reimagining of agrarian policy that gives recognition to the women's work, knowledge and leadership.
Keywords	Indian Writing in English, Corrective Function, Feminist political Economy, Literary representation and Vidarbha, Invisible workers.
Published In	Volume 8, Issue 3, May-June 2026
Published On	2026-05-22
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i03.79219

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