A Critical Study of Violence Described in P Sivakami's The Grip of Change from Zizekian Perspective

A Critical Study of Violence Described in P Sivakami's The Grip of Change from Zizekian Perspective

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Vivek Kumar , Dr Ramhit Chaupal

violence, prejudices, casteism, patriarchy, sexual exploitation etc.

Slavoj Zizek, a Slovenian philosopher, is widely known for his radical attitude and strong personality. His main interest lies in cultural conflicts, prejudices, discrimination, religious fundamentalism, etc. Though his ideas are very complex to be understood, they are very thought provoking. In this article, what I am supposed to present is the systematic study of violence described in P Sivakami’s The Grip of Change from Zizekian perspective. Zizek, in his widely acclaimed work on violence entitled Violence: Six Sideways Reflections”(2007), talks about two types of violence namely Subjective violence and Objective violence. Subjective violence refers to physical forms of violence that we can perceive through our eyes such as rape, murder, loot, mob-lynching, riots etc. Whereas, objective violence refers to such forms of violence that cannot be perceived through our eyes as they are internalized in socio-political system. Johan Galtung, a Gandhian peace theorist calls it the structural violence as it is embedded in our socio-political structures in such a way that common people do not realize its presence. It always maintains a kind of negative peace in the society. Coming to the select novel here, written by P Sivakami, is a realistic description of the wide gulf between the upper caste and the lower caste Hindus in Indian society. Being a woman of lower caste, she has the first hand experience of double marginalization, a woman has to go through both on the basis of caste outside her home, and on the basis of gender inside her home. Through the portrayal of Thangam, a childless young widow belonging to lower caste, the author has made an attempt to show the true face of the society as well as the political system. Her sexual exploitation by her employers belonging to upper caste Hindus on a regular basis and the pathetic scene when she is being dragged out of her hut by hair and beaten up publically by the members of the same community is very shameful and puts a question mark on this so called progress of the country.

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"A Critical Study of Violence Described in P Sivakami's The Grip of Change from Zizekian Perspective ", IJNRD - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (www.IJNRD.org), ISSN:2456-4184, Vol.8, Issue 1, page no.a220-a225, January-2023, Available :https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2301027.pdf

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