Subversion of ideologies in Manjushree Thapa’s Tilled Earth: A New Historicist Reading

Abstract

The present research aspires to study Manjushree Thapa's Tilled Earth, a collection of stories, from the new historicist perspective. Thapa, in the process of rewriting the official history, blurs fiction and history in such a way that her text emerges as a history from below, which, by subverting the ideologies prevailing in the society, creates a space for the voice of the marginalized people.