Volume V Special Issue V November 2025

Name of Author : Ms. Mythili M

Title of the paper : Literature as Resistance: Re Imagining Power, Identity, and Belonging

Abstract: This paper explores literature as a powerful medium of resistance, where marginalized voices challenge dominant narratives and reclaim spaces of power, identity, and belonging. Drawing on postcolonial, feminist, and cultural theories, the study examines how writers from historically oppressed communities employ narrative strategies to subvert hegemonic discourses and articulate alternative visions of self and society. Through textual analysis of selected works by Chinua Achebe, Toni Morrison, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Arundhati Roy, the research investigates how storytelling operates as both an act of survival and a tool of transformation. These texts demonstrate that literature is not merely a reflection of social realities but an active force in reshaping them, enabling writers to question colonial, patriarchal, and cultural hierarchies. The study argues that resistance in literature emerges through the reimagining of language, history, and identity, allowing silenced communities to assert agency and belonging within oppressive systems. Ultimately, the paper positions literature as a dynamic site of empowerment and renewal, where storytelling becomes an ethical and political act that transforms both author and reader, and where imagination itself serves as a form of liberation.

Keywords : Artificial Intelligence, Authorship, Technological singularity, narration and Computational Creativity.

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Page Number : 104-111