Pathetic Predicament and Resistance of the Subaltern in Trishna Gurung’s Selected Songs

Authors

  • Tara Lal Shrestha Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
  • Bidhya Shrestha Central Department of Population Studies, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
  • Dipankar Senehang Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
  • Bibechana Sharma Timsina Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3126/irjmmc.v2i3.40083

Keywords:

Hegemony, Pathetic predicament, Representation, Resistance, Subaltern

Abstract

This article overviews the distress situation of the Nepalese ethnic subaltern concerning Trishna Gurung’s five selected songs- “Sajha Ko Bela”, “Gainey Dajai”, “Khani Ho Yahmu”, “Rail Lai Ma” and “Maya Man Bhari” and explores how the aesthetic expression and the pathetic predicament of the subaltern come to be a subtle form of resistance. Her songs hold the spirit of remoteness and auratic root and counter the western musical hegemonic propensity and the dominant music culture of Nepal. Articulating subaltern sighs as a major concern of her songs in the auditory and visual representation she presents the repressed aesthetics as a constructive and creative space formation for the resistance. 

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Author Biographies

Tara Lal Shrestha, Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Lecturer, Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University
Email: [email protected]

Bidhya Shrestha, Central Department of Population Studies, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Lecturer, Central Department of Population Studies, Tribhuvan University
Email: [email protected]

Dipankar Senehang, Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Student of Fourth Semester
Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University
Email: [email protected]

Bibechana Sharma Timsina, Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Student of Fourth Semester
Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University
Email: [email protected]

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Published

2021-10-03

How to Cite

Shrestha, T. L., Shrestha, B., Senehang, D., & Timsina, B. S. (2021). Pathetic Predicament and Resistance of the Subaltern in Trishna Gurung’s Selected Songs. International Research Journal of MMC (IRJMMC), 2(3), 41–54. https://doi.org/10.3126/irjmmc.v2i3.40083

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