| ISSN: 2583-4371 | ISSN: 2583-4371JOURNAL ARTICLE
Abstract: This paper examines Mahasweta Devi as both a writer and activist, highlighting her profound compassion for the issues faced by tribal and subaltern women in post-colonial India. This paper analyses “Draupadi”, “Breast Giver”,and “The Hunt” from a feminist perspective to understand how these stories portray women's agency and resistance. It discusses how Mahasweta Devi's stories enable marginalised tribal women to question postcolonial and patriarchal power structures to assert their independence. The present study interrogates how Mahasweta Devi's stories depict the subjugation of marginalised women and how her writing enables them to regain agency in confronting oppressive social structures. This study explores themes of the body, violence, silence, resistance, and survival through the prism of postcolonial perspectives, feminist theory, and subaltern studies, with a particular focus on subaltern studies and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's theoretical findings. It aims to highlight how Devi challenges the limits of representation and shows how agency operates within constraints. In doing so, Devi redefines female marginalization as a complicated, situation-specific form of resistance rather than a sign of powerlessness.
Keywords: Subaltern Studies, Postcolonial Feminism, Tribal Women, Body Politics, Sexual Violence, Motherhood.
Article Info: Received: 18 Feb 2026, Received in revised form: 19 Mar 2026, Accepted: 24 Mar 2026, Available online: 27 Mar 2026
DOI: 10.22161/ijtle.5.2.5
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