Representation of the subaltern subjects in Rajan Mukarung's Hetchhakupa and Bina things Yambunera

Abstract

The present study argues that RājanMukārung and BināThīng represent the subaltern people as mute, muted, and unheard characters. This study applies the critical perspective of subaltern studies as furthered in postcolonial India to rewrite the social history in the post-independence period. The major theorists beginning from Ranjit Guha to Gayatri Chakravarti Spivak state that the people at the bottom tend to get misrepresented and termed inaccessible for the people at the top. However, this study assumes that J. Magio helps us understand the premise that the people express their voice through aesthetic works. Mukārung’sHetchhākupā focuses on the cultural, indigenous identity and lends a voice to the sufferings and marginalization of the characters. It implies that the subalterns are silenced due to the context of socio-political structure so their voices are unheard and ignored. Similarly, Thīng’sYāmbuneradeals with marginalization, poverty, illiteracy, subjugation, domination of subalterns and envisions their subsequent resistance. Using the critical perspective of Gayatri Chakrabarty Spivak, Ranjit Guha, Partha Chatarjee, Dipesh Chakravorty, and J. Magio, this study analyzes the fictions to conclude that the contemporary Nepali fiction depicts mute, muted, and unheard subjects in it. Keywords: Nepali Fictions, Subaltern, Indigenous People, Representation, Voice from the Margin