Theoretical Framework REVIEW OF LITERATURE
many Third World feminists emphasize that even though gender issues are of concern to them, economic and political issues tend to occupy the centre
of their stage. They stress that their oppression as members of a Third World people are often greater than their oppression as women per se
2009: 215.
The criticism, therefore, explores works of literature from the perspectives of the
native woman in a colonised society. This criticism is chosen to analyse The Home and the World to see the
struggle of native Indian woman in the novel. Indian society is oppressed by two power called double colonisation. Double colonisation is a condition when people
are governed in an unfair way and prevented from having opportunities and freedom. In this case, it is patriarchal system and imperialism power that bound
the Indian people especially native Indian women, as the most oppressed object. The term ‘double colonisation’ derived from the terms used by Kirsten Petersen
and Anna Rutherford in the book Beginning Postcolonialism , ‘a double
colonisation’ which refers to the fact that women are twice colonised by colonialist reality and representation, and by patriarchal system 2005: 172.
This criticism is suitable for this research because postcolonial-feminism criticism is a reaction against colonialism in patriarchal society. Postcolonial-
feminism tries “to analyse the perpetuation of gender bias and ‘double
colonization’ even in post-independence states, seeing the persistence of ‘neo- colonial’ domination of women in national patriarchies” Ashcroft, 2007: 67.
This research deals with the experiences of the native Indian woman and focuses on the woman character as the representation of native Indian woman’s during the
Swadeshi Movement as depicted in the novel.