Abstract

The colonial experience and its afterlives have shaped the literatures of the Global South in profound ways. Writers like Mahasweta Devi from India and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o from Kenya have emerged as critical voices in articulating the struggles of marginalized communities under colonial and neo-colonial regimes. Despite their different geographical and cultural contexts, both authors converge in their commitment to foregrounding subaltern resistance, critiquing the failures of post-independence states, and reclaiming indigenous cultural epistemologies. This research seeks to conduct a comparative, transnational analysis of their works to explore how literature becomes a site of resistance against structures of domination—both colonial and internal.