Anonymous Stars: Rewriting History from Below

Abstract

The study entitled “Anonymous Stars (Gumnam Taraharu): Rewriting History from Below” explores how Raju Syangtan,  contemporary indigenous poet of Tamang community, destabilizes the officially established history of the mainstream and establish the history of the common people rewriting it from the perspective of the margin through his poem “Anonymous Stars”. It also shows how the poet defies the so-called civilized and superior system, culture, politics and language which excludes the voice of the common people and deifies the reality, culture, politics and language of the ethnic community. This research focuses on excavating the untold and unheard stories of the unvoiced people in order to redefine their local independent identity. This study employs textual analysis of Syangtan’s poem using New Historicist concept of Michael Foucault, Stephen Greenblatt and Catherine Gallaghar.  It is found that new Historicist Idea is a tool that the poet of the marginalized community uses to unearth untold and unheard Stories. The research concludes with the claim that the Raju Syangtan contributes in rewriting history from the perspective of the subaltern people highlighting on counter-discursivity, resistance, counter-storytelling and counter-hegemonic consciousness in his poem. This research can be historically significant as it encourages the marginalized voiceless people to unearth the untold and unheard stories of the common people of the world in order to reestablish their identity and equality-based society challenging metanarrative using mininarratives.