‘OTHER’ IN SECULAR DISCOURSES (A case study on Mappila identity construction)
The former concepts and theories about the power have been oriented from political to civil.civil power which works through the novels and media are discussed widely. Basing on such researches this thesis tries to analyses the power within secular discourses and how it constructed an identity in order to otherize it. In addition to it, this thesis reads the secular identity and its power within Kerala context and tries to analyze how it constructed a Mappila other. For This, thesis analyses power in new mode thus it depends on the novels and mass Media, which are the means of neo power, rather than classical power machines. Major parts of this thesis consist the analysis of Malayalam novels and literature and discuss how power worked within it. This thesis discusses about Brahmanical superiority with in Malayalam literature and how this otherizes Mappila from mainstream. After Foucault’s theory on bio power, the power politics and the capitalist government had been seen in a wider sense. The life and culture itself was seen as a medium of power. Thus the counter revolution was based on culture and identity. By the cause of feminist, black and other sectarian political movements, the world of intelligentsia is now focusing on identity issue and discusses it more than anything.
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People began to think about their identity and use it as a means of resistance. It was begun by 1940s as black niggers want the equal rights as white have. Feminist, religious and other sectarian movement add more fuel to the fire.
The sectarian movements gain much attention in post colonial era as many philosophers like Terry Eagleton proclaimed that this movement would lead to the future society and also will lead to the decline of western modernism
In Kerala, the identity politics and movements raised by 1980s when the mass witnessed Adivasi, Dalit movements for their rights like Chengara and Muthanga. Now many intellectuals like P.K Poker, K.E.N, Sunni Kapikkad, and K.K Koch etc have been discussing on the issue. Even though there raised a mass movement of Dalit and oppressed, there made less attempts to read Mappila identity in such a context. Rather most Mappila intellectuals are being trapped only in anti colonial discourses than developing the identity in to an anti feudal mainstream discourses this thesis is an attempt to read Mappila identity as otherized and also discourses on how it could be developed as anti
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