انواسی: تشدّد کے محرکات اور مقامی تصویر کی بازیافت

Anwasi: Motives of Violence and the Retrieval of Indigenous Image

Abstract

This Research article “Anwasi: Causes of Violence and the retrieval of indigenous image “presents a critical analysis of the Novel. The analysis examines the causes of violence through the theoretical framework of Frantz Fanon. Fanon argues that violence and resistance expressed by colonized subjects is the response to the structural and physical violence of the Colonizer. He further contends that colonialism constructs two mutually exclusive worlds: the world of the colonizer and that of the colonized. Within this binary, the colonizer represents himself as civilized, superior, and normative, while paints the picture of indigenous population as the uncivilized and inferior other. Rather than internalizing this imposed and distorted identity, however, the colonized subject adopts violent resistance as a means of reclaiming agency and dignity. In “Anwasi” Saida and his companions embody this mode of anticolonial resistance. The study demonstrates that, through its characterization and narrative structure, the novel not only exposes the socio-historical and ideological factors behind violence but also seeks to recover the authentic image of the indigenous world by dismantling colonial representations. The novel’s locale, the ancient settlement of “Adam Wahan” and its characters belonging to the indigenous Sansi and Machhi communities, including Mithal, Nablo, Mangar, Saida, Piro, Mero, Naghiro, and Malookan, collectively represent the indigenous world in opposition to the colonial world. Consequently, the novel facilitates the retrieval of indigenous identity and locality. This process of recovering indigenous identity entails a critical interrogation of the colonial discourse that has historically constructed and misrepresented the indigenous subject.