أطراس

Erased From Nation’s Story: Violence Of Representation And Semblance Of Transitional Justice Against Bangladeshi Indigenous

Auteurs : Saha Aroop .

Résumé

The article examines the violence of representation and the semblance of transitional justice as apparatuses of state subjugation against the indigenous self, society, and story in Bangladesh. Moreover, it aims to identify the challenges arising from the violence of representation and the semblance of transitional justice, which serve only to reinforce the state's denial and indigenous rejection, thereby hindering the construction of a harmonious relationship rather than fostering hostility. Consequently, it will identify the strategy to stop the state’s structural process of erasing the indigenous self, society, and story from Bangladesh’s national narrative. Even after being the victim of the violence of representation and the semblance of transitional justice, Bangladesh is now encountering the contention to make the indigenous people victims using those. The government of Bangladesh denies providing the citizens' rights to the indigenous people, but it imposes a false representation. Bangladesh, as a nation, delineates the indigenous people as non-existent or outcasts. By this, it commits violence of representation against the indigenous people. On the contrary, Bangladesh rejects transitional justice through the 1997 Peace Accord, focusing on administrative reforms, job preservation, and land ownership for indigenous people. It refuses to give justice to the indigenous victims through transitional justice. It makes a semblance of transitional justice. Because of the violence of representation and the semblance of transitional justice, the Bengali and indigenous writers/novelists cannot represent the indigenous self, society, and story in their writing. This process erases the indigenous tale from the national story.

Mots clés

Nation’s Story ; Indigenous Narrative ; Violence ; Representation ; Transitional Justice ; Bangladesh