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September 17, 2025Vidhyayana

Clay and Conflict: Cultural Memory, Religious Violence, and Artistic Resistance in Anuradha Roy’s The Earthspinner

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Cultural studies lens reveals artistic resistance to religious violence in contemporary India, indicating a critique of nationalism.

Key Points

  • Artistic creation serves as a form of resistance against sociopolitical violence, highlighting the fragility of individual expression.
  • Elango, a potter, symbolizes the tragic conflict between personal creativity and cultural censorship in a divided society.
  • The narrative examines tensions between rural and urban landscapes and religious relations, emphasizing cultural fragmentation.
  • Roy critiques cultural commodification of art while illustrating it as a space for hope and spiritual defiance.

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Dr Dilip B Kataliya (2021) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d4768331b076d99fa6f230https://doi.org/10.58213/f9xs0c28
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