A POSTCOLONIAL FEMINIST STUDY OF GARCIA MARQUEZ’S THE SAD AND INCREDIBLE TALE OF INNOCENT ERENDIRA AND HER HEARTLESS GRANDMOTHER

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to trace out the instances of ‘double colonization’ of female subaltern in Garcia Marquez’s novella The Sad and Incredible Tale of Innocent Erendira and Her Heartless Grandmother. The post-colonial theory of Gayatri Spivak is applied to trace out the ‘dual suppression’ of a ‘silenced subaltern’ in a colonized patriarchal power structure. Qualitative research paradigm is taken up as a prime research methodology that has guided data analysis. The data of the study consist of lines from The Sad and Incredible Tale of Innocent Erendira and Her heartless Grandmother. Garcia Marquez symbolically traces the history of Spanish colonialism in his novels   and through his characters highlights the destructive effects of colonization on the psyche of suppressed subjugated subjects.