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The creative force driving contemporary writing redefines identity and marginality, writes Kailash C Baral
In contemporary critical-theoretical debates, the term ‘margin’ has assumed crucial importance setting forth a string of questions: Who is the marginal and what are the conditions of marginality? Who marginalises whom and how? How does silence come to speech and what linguistic register does it select in providing depth and dimension to the tone and tenor of narratives of marginality? Does it seek a voice of its own in terms of difference alone, or is it always a voice of protest? Is marginality also a feature of literature? If so, in what way(s)? Does it underline the author’s location, his/her identity and socio-cultural background, or does it connote a political conundrum identifying the relationship between the centre and its periphery, or is it about other differentiated markers such as ethnic or linguistic identities and the politics about them? In whatever way we look at marginality, as a fact of life and living, marginality was, is and will always be with us in diverse forms. It is part of similarity as well as difference; in overcoming marginality we create new marginals hence the process goes on.