Research Scholar, Center for Comparative Literature and Translation Studies, School of Language, Literature, & Culture Studies, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
Online published on 3 December, 2014.
The well-known short story writers Woman Hoval and Nadine Gordimer represent their writing of Caste - Race based society in India and Africa. It needs to apply the cultural theoretical framework to know the marginal identity of Dalit and ‘coloured’ people. This paper is more concern with three major points are - (i) marginal and cultural identity of ‘Dalit’ and ‘Coloured’, (ii) the struggle and discrimination of third world countries, and (iii) the dominancy and weak constitutional law of marginal people. These points need to understand as produces in historical and institutional sites within discursive formations by enunciatively strategies. Culture come to be a terrain of marginalize struggle became heavily politicized. In the short story of Hoval the protagonist Bayaji struggle to build the storeyed house yet no charge against the upper-class man Patil for the burning Bayaji's house where as Gordimer's story Baby dies because of Paul. Despite the identities, it has similar experiences of being marginalized, so there is an urgent need to bring social revolution for equal rights. Therefore, everyone should educate about the social consciousness against the conventional rules in the society. To sum up with whatever is the evil of distinction was existing, it same still exists in twenty-first century also. The marginal are much better than the past, there is no doubt, but still they are “depress” and “abuse” by other. This due to the existence of cultural politics, which is alive issue in the present world also. The weak Indian constitutional and African apartheid laws fail to give equal rights to them.
Caste, race, marginality, culture, identity, politics