Literature as Discourse of Resistance: An Introduction

This chapter presents a comprehensive overview of the book that argues for literature as a discourse of resistance. By dividing the book into six sections, the chapter reveals the power politics of the dominant from the perspective of the dialectic of nation formation, multiculturalism, ethnicity, identity politics, racism, patriarchy, environmental degradation, globalism, and neo-imperialistic strategies. The chapter reviews the textual analyses dealt with in the following chapters of the book and evaluates the efforts of the contributors of the following chapters to represent the dominant systems that operate to undermine the underprivileged and marginalized. The chapter argues that the following eighteen chapters in the book have enriched the anthology by exploring the meanings of Resistance and the therapeutic aspects of writing as a means of Resistance.