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The Hunt is On: Women Resisting Patriarchal and Colonial Oppression

The Hunt is On: Women Resisting Patriarchal and Colonial Oppression

In Mary Oraon, protagonist in Mahasweta Devi’s ‘The Hunt,’ we find the concrete alternative to capably resist not only the injustice of gender politics but also the incursion upon tribal land and forests by feudalism, colonialism, and global capitalism. There is a reason why Australia figures in the story. Mary and the trees planted on her tribal [...]