Women’s Subalternity and Subjugation in Postcolonial Literature: A Feminist Analysis of the Novel “All My Rage”

Abstract

This article entitled “Subalternity in All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir: A Postcolonial Feminist 
Analysis” raises the issue of women's subalternity, suppression, and marginalization. The research 
study aims to investigate women as subaltern objects that have been marginalized, double 
colonized and suppressed through physical and mental torture in social and political contexts 
in All My Rage (2022). It shows the power of patriarchy and its impacts on women's lives. It 
demonstrates the struggle of Noor, the female protagonist in the novel, who is suffering physical 
violence and marginalization but still chasing her dream. It shows the impacts of marginalization 
and subalternity on women's lives in the novel. The research article relies on the theoretical 
framework of Gayatri Spivak's "Can the Subalterns Speak" (1988) as Spivak has presented this 
theory that focuses on the suppression and marginalization of an inferior class in society who have 
no access to power control and specifically she has used the term subaltern for the oppressed and 
subjugated women in Indian society. It uses the qualitative method for the textual analysis of the 
novel under the Can the Subalterns Speak (1988) paradigm. This research study will be beneficial 
to give a voice to subaltern and marginalized women in society, and it will also depict a realistic 
image of a society that considers women as an object of victimization, marginalization, and 
inferiority. This research study focuses on the understanding of All My Rage (2022) from a 
postcolonial feminist perspective with the lens of Can the Subalterns Speak (1988) to fulfill the 
knowledge gap.