• Anwesha Roy Chaudhury

The subaltern existence of Ramchand with alienation and yearning to upscale the social ladder in RupaBajwa’sThe Sari Shop not only exposes the sham of the hegemony but presents the paraphernalia of corruption that binds the marginalized in its grip.The crux of the problem is the existential absurdity a sense of desolation, disorientation in the morbid socio-cultural gyre of power-politics. Ramchand’s existential pangs, utter-fatalism realizing his loss of self-identity along with the brutal killing of a subaltern woman Kamala makes him fight for a third space for reclaiming identity through enunciation thereby exerting his freedom by rebelling against the bourgeoisie entrapments in a zeal to authenticate his existence, self-identity as ‘in-itself’. This paper espouses the main-plot shelling the sub-plot dealing with subaltern existence, their striving towards individual positive freedom and claiming a self-identity in the third space for enunciation.

existentialism, subaltern, third-space, self-identity

"A JOURNEY FROM EXISTENTIAL CRISIS TO FREEDOM IN RUPA BAJWA’S THE SARI SHOP", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no.267-270, July-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRA006047.pdf

"A JOURNEY FROM EXISTENTIAL CRISIS TO FREEDOM IN RUPA BAJWA’S THE SARI SHOP", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no. pp267-270, July-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRA006047.pdf