Silenced Sierva Maria: A Study of Gendered Subaltern in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Of Love and Other Demons

Abstract

This research aims to show the marginalization of female who is born in an aristocrat family based on Gabriel Garcia Marquez‟s Of Love and Other Demons. The females of colonial family are also treated as colonized natives during colonial era. They are inferiorized not only in domestic life but also in public life. The research paper also proves how a female is victimized in the networks of patriarchy that always privilege the male. Female‟s voice is always silenced on account of patriarchal ideology and role of church authority in the context of this novel. Moreover, superstitious beliefs, manipulation of female as patriarchal agency, traditional concept, construction of truth by religious institution that functions as if it is synonymous to patriarchy are some of the factors that play the crucial role to marginalize female. For this, the novel is approached from the perspective of gendered subaltern.