Nalini jameela malayalam autobiography pdf free download

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Nalini jameela autobiography malayalam pdf

Autobiography of a Sex Worker through the conceptual framework of warmachine proposed by Deleuze and Guattari. My paper focuses on the role of colonial modernity in establishing the genre of autobiographical writing in Kerala and reads how Nalini Jameela's work significantly alters the genre by subverting the dominant notions of ideal woman, cheap woman and autobiographical language.

Colonial modernity had a significant role in establishing stabilised characteristics to gender categories and accordingly an ideal woman is supposed to be subservient, familycentric and should function in society-approved manner for the progress of her nuclear family. Nalini Jameela's work questions these suppositions. I explore the following questions in my paper-What was the impact of colonial modernity in establishing autobiography as a genre in Kerala?

By challenging hegemonic modes of 'telling', how does the work establish a conflicted political subjectivity? Does Nalini Jameela's autobiography subvert the established understandings of veshya prostitute? How does the work deconsecrate the 'respectability' notions of angelic domestic woman? Through counter narratives of Malayali modernity autobiographical writings of Nalini Jameela and C.

The varied reception to these works also shows the conscious choices and appropriations in mainstream histories to synthesize a homogenous image of the elite modern and the ideal feminine in Kerala. Autobiography, as a genre of writing, has formed an important site of feminist engagement with dominant theories of the self.

Awareness that the subject of autobiography, politicised as it is, also remains fully mediated by discourse has alerted feminists to ways in which discursive position and material or historical location are mutually implicated in autobiography.