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Makale Özeti:
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The concept of the “other” has been given significant consideration under
the banner of Post-colonial studies. This branch of study concentrates on how one
position, person or ideology is held in privilege by creating ‘other’. In this category
of ‘other’ come all those ideas or identities which have been given a subordinate
position in the wake of maintaining a prime position for something ideologically
supported. In Post-colonial dialects the term, ‘other’ occupies a prominent place. It
incorporates the chunk of people who are subordinates in terms of class, caste or
gender. It is the subject position that defines marginality. The lack and deprivation,
loneliness and alienation, subjugation and subordination, the resignation and
silence, the resilience and neglect, mark the lives of ‘marginalized’, even when they
resist and rise up. They feel bounded and defeated by their subject positions. They
have no representatives or spokespersons in the society they live in and so
helplessly suffer and get marginal place or no place at all in the history and culture
of which they are the essential parts as human beings.
The objective of this paper is to scrutinize Mahasweta Devi’s novel Mother
of 1084 as a saga of the mothers who are treated as ‘others’ not only by the society
but their families as well. The second stride that the paper takes is to analyse the
different paradigms of identity crisis: how politically motivated people view the
martyrs as ‘others’ and eulogize those who actually act as ‘others’.
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